Hampshire College is one of five New England colleges that have formed a pioneering renewable-energy collaborative allowing them to offset 46,000 megawatt hours per year of their collective electrical needs with electricity created at a new solar power facility, to be built in Farmington, Maine. The partnership represents the first collaborative purchase of solar electricity in New England higher education.
Most importantly, it provides market access that would not have been available to individual institutions, offering a scalable model that other colleges and universities can follow.
Hampshire’s incoming president is Miriam E. Nelson, outgoing director of the Sustainability Institute at the University of New Hampshire.