Energy self-sufficiency in Northampton, Massachusetts

• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Hampshire Coll., Amherst, MA (USA) 1979
• Subjects: Populations; 291000 > Energy Planning & Policy > Conservation; Resource Conservation; 32 Energy Conservation; Consumption; And Utilization; Massachusetts; Communities; Decision Making; 320600 > Energy Conservation; & Utilization > Municipalities & Community Systems > (1980-); Social Impact; North Atlantic Region; Economic Impact; Human Populations; Energy Source Development; Energy Conservation; Usa 292000* > Energy Planning & Policy > Supply; Demand & Forecasting; 29 Energy Planning; Policy And Economy; 299000 > Energy Planning & Policy > Unconventional Sources & Power Generation; Energy Sources; Environmental Impacts; Energy Supplies; North America; Renewable Energy Sources; 290200 > Energy Planning & Policy > Economics & Sociology; Northampton; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/5663729; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1093630/

The study is not an engineering analysis but begins the process of exploring the potential for conservation and local renewable-resource development in a specific community, Northampton, Massachusetts, with the social, institutional, and environmental factors in that community taken into account. Section I is an extensive executive summary of the full study, and Section II is a detailed examination of the potential for increased local energy self-sufficiency in Northampton, including current and future demand estimates, the possible role of conservation and renewable resources, and a discussion of the economic and social implications of alternative energy systems. (MOW)