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Reduce Your Climate Impact by Composting Food Scraps
Americans waste more than 100 billion pounds of food each year. All this wasted food has an impact on the disposal capacity of landfills. Lebanon is not immune to this. Each year, more than 5,000 tons of food scraps are landfilled in Lebanon. View Complete Details... -
Can I Recycle This Plastic?
Every day at the Lebanon Recycling Center, our staff receives questions about what plastic is recyclable and what is not. It is important to know what is NOT recyclable so we keep our recycling contaminate-free. View complete details... -
Lebanon Open Space Plan Published!
In November 2021, the Conservation Commission adopted the Lebanon Open Space Plan, which helps articulate the City's long-term vision for land conservation. View Complete Details... -
A Plea to Separate Recyclables Correctly
Lebanon’s Solid Waste staff is always busy receiving and managing waste and recycling from Upper Valley households. The staff works hard to simplify the process and new signs were installed last year to improve communication with facility users. Continue Reading... -
Keeping Our Recyclables Local
Do you know where your recyclables go? In this day and age, understanding where your food comes from is important. Is it local? Is it organic? Is it grass-fed, cage-free, etc? But do you know where your recyclables go and why it makes a difference? Continue Reading... -
Commit to Refill NOT Landfill this April
During the month of April, the Lebanon Solid Waste Division, in cooperation with the Hanover Consumer Cooperative (the Co-op), is asking everyone to commit to refill NOT landfill and look for opportunities to REUSE. Take the Refill NOT Landfill pledge! Take the pledge today!
The following pages contain information regarding current energy and facility related projects planned for or happening in the City of Lebanon.
City Hall Renovation Project City Council approved the replacement of the roof, reconfiguration of the former Recreation Office, replacement of boilers, revamping and cleaning the HVAC system, and some exterior drainage work on the front east side of the building. Construction will be taking place between September 2019 and March/April 2020. |
- LebanonNH.gov/Energy (you are here)
- Lebanon Energy Advisory Committee
- Chapter 13: Energy of the Lebanon Master Plan
- Council Resolution in Support of Paris Climate Agreement
Outcomes & Initiatives
Lebanon has hired its first Energy & Facilities Manager and is diligently working to implement the vision contained in our Energy Plan (as outlined in the City of Lebanon's Master Plan Chapter 13: Energy).
Efforts associated with implementation include, but are not limited to:
- Increasing energy and cost savings for the City
- Working with Liberty Utilities to implement an innovative battery storage program for homeowners and businesses in West Lebanon
- Helping our landfill to capture methane and burn it to provide green electricity for most all City operations
- Improving the energy efficiency of municipal buildings
- Exploring and implementing renewable energy options like solar PV, hydropower, electric vehicles and other alternative transportation
- Crafting policies that promote energy efficiency, financial investment, and new business opportunities
- Converting the City’s streetlights to high-efficiency LED ‘smart’ lights and remove streetlights that are not serving any useful purpose
- Aligning energy initiatives with the City’s Guiding Principles and Principles for Sustainability
- Exploring innovative new models for electricity pricing and distribution (including Community Aggregation* Community Aggregation is an alternative to the investor owned utility energy supply system in which a municipality aggregates the buying power of individual customers within a defined jurisdiction in order to secure alternative energy supply contracts. The CA chooses the power generation source on behalf of the consumers. By aggregating purchasing power, it is able to create large contracts with generators that individual buyers may be unable to do. The main goals of CAs have been to either lower costs for consumers or to allow consumers greater control of their energy mix, mainly by offering "greener" generation portfolios than local utilities.andReal Time Pricing* Real Time Pricing (RTP) is a system of electricity pricing that allows charging higher prices when electric demand is highest, but offers lower prices when demand is low. RTP is expected to reduce actual use during peak demand periods by encouraging consumers to shift their load to off-peak times, often through the use of ‘smart meters.’ Peak demand increases production costs because it drives the need for costly new equipment and RTP makes this transparent.) in collaboration with the NH Public Utilities Commission, neighboring municipalities, and Liberty Utilities. The intention is to provide the municipality, residents and businesses with less expensive and greener power options
- Working with the City Council to achieve its resolution for Lebanon to meet the greenhouse gas reduction goals of the Paris Climate Accord: a minimum 26% reduction in emissions by the year 2025
- Monitoring the performance of all the energy programs in the City in order to prioritize future initiatives and planning efforts
The Lebanon Energy Advisory Committee (LEAC) is a subcommittee of the City Council and acts as the public body that is engaged with energy-related efforts. You are encouraged to learn and engage with the City’s energy initiatives and programs by attending LEAC meetings, attending community energy-related events, subscribing to Energy-related news, or meeting personally with our Energy & Facilities Manager, Tad Montgomery.
LEAC meetings occur on the 3rd Thursday of each month, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, on the 5th floor of City Hall. Meeting agendas and minutes can be found in the Agendas section of the City’s website. Please contact us if you have ideas, questions, concerns, or just want to plug in.
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Everett Hammond
Assistant Public Works DirectorPhone: 603-448-3112 ext. 6227
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