Position on Power Generation in Sudbury

Power Generation technologies available:

Solar Farm
Favorable. Convert open space, school, and municipal rooftop space to solar photovoltaic. Utilize incentives, discount fuel, and power buyback rates offered by The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, NSTAR, and Mass Energy Alliance to offset the senior tax burden.

Coal Fired Steam Generation for Power Production
Unfavorable. Economics of "clean coal" not established.

Oil/biofuel Fired Steam Generation for Power Production
Favorable. See powerplant system in Hudson, MA. Proposed locations include Route 20 corridor (after road widening plans are complete) and Union Ave. Numerous municipalities own or run power generating plants or have town-run power companies which offer reduced rates and closer oversight.

Municipal Distributed Nuclear Powerplant System
Under consideration for the future as fusion technology develops. Distributed nuclear power systems with low risk steam generation, steam distribution, electric power generation, water cooling proposed for future small-scale municipalities. Fusion reactors may not be feasible for some years, but they offer the potential for clean and nearly limitless energy production which will change the entire economic structure of the earth and completely eliminate the need for combustion-based energy systems. Present fission reactors are not sufficiently safe and product excessive radioactive waste.

Hydroelectric Power Generation
Unfavorable. Sudbury River has insufficient flow and terrain insufficient drop for practical dam and turbine system of any size without flooding of large areas of Federally Protected Wetlands.

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