Nexant, a provider of intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions, has stated that their client Acushnet Company of Fairhaven, MA will be receiving a “Beacon for Energy” of certificate from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, or “DOER.”

 

DOER Commissioner Philip Giudice presented the clean energy leadership certificate to the Acushnet Cogeneration Design Team in a ceremony at Titleist's Ball Plant II in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

 

Under the Green Communities Act passed last year, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts established an Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard, or “APS,” to promote lower greenhouse gas, or “GHG,” emissions and create new market opportunities for businesses and institutions in the energy technology and renewable sector.

 

Acushnet’s Titleist Golf Ball Plant II is the site of a new 2 megawatt combined heat and power, or “CHP,” facility. Producing both heat and electricity in one on-site facility, CHP results in dramatic energy savings and reduced environmental impacts compared to centralized power and traditional heating systems. It is one of the innovative technologies that qualify for the Alternative Energy Credits, or “AEC,” under Massachusetts’s new APS scheme.

 

Acushnet had retained Nexant’s clean energy experts to help them qualify its cogeneration system at this plant and transact the resulting AECs in the state marketplace. Acushnet claims that it is also the first Massachusetts Company to have qualified for APS credits.

 

Commissioner Giudice has commented that Acushnet is demonstrating the type of leadership everyone needs to consider as the Commonwealth advances along the path toward a clean energy future.

 

Hank Conaty, Senior Director of Golf Ball Engineering and Technology at Acushnet Company has added that they entered into this initiative as part of an ongoing energy efficiency program and this initiative represents a large investment in sustainable energy technology to reduce their energy consumption and their carbon footprint resulting in an effective reduction in energy costs in their golf ball manufacturing plant. Nexant has helped them improve the investment paybacks on their alternative energy projects.

 

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