[SEMCO] Greg Watson to speak on Sate Energy Issues at WBNERR on Wednesday evening

[Muller, Joan (DCR)]

State Clean Energy Advisor to Provide Update

Watson special guest at May 21 meeting of CIRenew

 

Greg Watson, a senior member of Governor Deval Patrick's energy team,
will be featured speaker at a forum sponsored by the Cape and Islands
Renewable Energy Collaborative (CIRenew) in Waquoit on May 21. The
forum, "Common Wealth: Making Clean Energy Work for Massachusetts," is
free and open to the public; it runs from 7-9 p.m. at the Waquoit Bay
National Estuarine Research Reserve <http://www.waquoitbayreserve.org/>
on Route 28 in the Waquoit section of Falmouth. Light refreshments will
be served.

 

Watson is senior advisor for Clean Energy Technology with the
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and
Vice President for Sustainable Development with the Massachusetts
Technology Collaborative. At the CIRenew event on May 21, he will give
an update on state policies and opportunities regarding clean energy,
economic development, and climate change. 

 

The skyrocketing costs of fossil fuels and their impacts on local
residents and our economy are already critical concerns, and they
represent looming threats. Watson will talk about Governor Patrick's
near- and long-range plans to address these issues and other challenges
through conservation, efficiency, and renewable energy. 

 

"Greg's knowledge of the Cape and his inside post with the Patrick
administration will shed light on the actions the Commonwealth is taking
to help struggling consumers pay their bills and to maximize local
advantage from efficiency, wind, solar, and other clean options," said
Chris Powicki, president of CIRenew.

 

Watson, a resident of Falmouth, is known to many on the Cape as former
Executive Director of the New Alchemy Institute. Currently, Watson is
taking the lead for the state on the Offshore Wind
<http://www.masstech.org/renewableenergy/owec.htm>  Collaborative
<http://www.masstech.org/renewableenergy/owec.htm> , working with the
U.S. Department of Energy and GE. Other roles include Executive Director
of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative; with Second Nature as its
Director of Educational Programs; director of The Nature Conservancy's
Eastern Regional Office; and Commissioner of the Massachusetts
Department of Food and Agriculture. Watson serves on the board of
directors of Ocean Arks International and the Henry A. Wallace Institute
for Alternative Agriculture.

 

The meeting will conclude with Q&A and time for conversation and
networking. Information will be available on CIRenew membership and on
local clean energy programs and activities. To learn more about CIRenew,
visit www.cirenew.org <http://www.cirenew.org/> .

 

Joan Muller

508-457-0495 x107

 

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