Press Releases
Hingham Community Survey to Inform the Climate Action Plan
Hingham Community Survey to Inform the Climate Action Plan The Hingham Climate Action Planning Committee (CAPC) has released a survey to all Hingham residents to learn more about what the community wants to include in the Climate Action Plan (CAP) being developed. The...
Hingham’s Safe and Sustainable Education Program
The Hingham Municipal Light Department has been dedicated to the Safe and Sustainable Education Program run by Ray Gouley for the past 30 years and is proud to see the program continue in classrooms today. This year, all Hingham elementary students from preschool to 5th grade participated in discussions about Mr. Ouch and electrical safety, energy efficiency, and where electricity comes from.
Vineyard Wind Forms First-in-the-Nation Partnership with Municipal Light Plants to Help Massachusetts Communities Go Green
PART OF THE COMMONWEALTH WIND PROPOSAL, AGREEMENT WOULD ALLOW MLPS (INCLUDING HINGHAM MUNICIPAL LIGHTING PLANT) TO ACQUIRE LOCALLY GENERATED WIND POWER(BOSTON, MA) – Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of AVANGRID, Inc. (NYSE:...
Important Letter to Customers
Dear HMLP Customer and Citizens of Hingham, The storm of last week, a “bomb cyclone,” was more powerful and destructive as any in recent memory. Possibly the last time we experienced one so bad was Hurricane Carol in 1954. It was the ultimate stress test for our Light...
HMLP Partners with Abode Energy to Advance Air Source Heat Pump Adoption
New HMLP community heat pump progNew HMLP community heat pump program assists Hingham homeowners when adopting efficient cooling and heating through air source heat pumps.Hingham, Mass. - Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant (HMLP) has launched a new program to build...
Hingham Wind Presentation
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Energy Expert Discusses Renewable Energy and Climate Change
HINGHAM – Larry Chretien, Executive Director of Mass Energy, certainly knows how to fill a room. With oil and natural gas prices still soaring and the cost of energy on everyone’s mind, over 80 people from Hingham and some surrounding towns filed into the Hingham...
Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant Installs Anemometer
The Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant (HMLP) completed an important step in the study of potential wind power in Hingham with the installation of a 164 foot wind monitoring device, called an anemometer. The HMLP contractor, Lighthouse Electrical Contracting of...
Hingham Light completes Residential Rate Comparison
Hingham- The Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant has completed a review of its 2007 Residential rates compared to the privately-owned electric utilities that surround Hingham. The comparison against the rates of Massachusetts Electric, a National Grid company, Boston...