New England 'Energy Raisers' Make Light Work of Going Solar. By Sarah Schweitzer, BGlobe, May 8, 2008. "Last weekend, some 30 men and women arrived at a neighbor's home in [Sandwich, New Hampshire], prepared for a day of hard labor. Their pay would be a pot of coffee, slabs of cornbread, and a spread of roast turkey sandwiches. In days past, the end result might have been a barn. But in a twist on the traditional... the neighbors put up a solar-heated water system [instead of a barn]... Neighbors in this and other New England communities are coming together for daylong 'energy raisers,' installing solar collectors that can reduce a home's hot water bill by as much as 80%... The energy raisers so far have been concentrated in New Hampshire, where neighbors in Sandwich, Plymouth, where a handful of surrounding towns have equipped 23 homes with solar and other alternative energy systems in the past three years; the group has scheduled 12... for this summer. Another group held Massachusetts' first energy raiser last month in Buckland, and a Cambridge group is hoping to begin…soon."
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