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FirstLight Power Elects Phil Giudice Board Chair

July 10, 2020

FirstLight Power, operator of Northfield Mountain energy storage facility and other hydroelectric, solar, and energy-storage assets in Massachusetts and Connecticut, has elected Phil Giudice as chair of its board of directors. Mr. Giudice is a former Massachusetts Undersecretary of Energy and Commissioner of Energy Resources; a current director of the Northeast Clean Energy Council and…

FirstLight VP Tom Kaslow to Join NECA “Energy Security” Policy Webcast

June 9, 2020

The Northeast Energy and Commerce Association has invited FirstLight Vice President of Market Policy Tom Kaslow to join its June 10 online webcast panel discussion about energy security policies. As owner and operator of Northfield Mountain, the pumped-storage hydropower facility that can begin producing power for 1 million homes with less than 10 minutes notice,…

Northfield Mountain’s quick-response energy celebrated by NHA’s ‘Path to Clean Energy’

April 24, 2020

Along with our ability to store close to 9,000 megawatt-hours of electricity generated by offshore wind, solar, and other renewable resources–enough to keep the lights on for 300,000 New England homes for a day–Northfield Mountain is prized by the New England grid operator for our ability to generate emergency power in a matter of minutes.…

FirstLight Power And Employees Donate Over $12,000 to Local Food Banks

April 20, 2020

FirstLight Power announced today that its employees, matched by company funds and a personal match from the company’s CEO, donated over $12,000 to nine local food banks in the company’s food drive to support local communities in Connecticut and Massachusetts. “We are so proud of the whole FirstLight team who stepped forward in this time…

FirstLight Event Supports Raptor Rescue in Massachusetts

January 29, 2020

FirstLight Power was delighted to partner with the Northfield Bird Club for an event January 14 that attracted 86 attendees–and raised more than $1,100 for rehabilitating sick and injured hawks and owls to return to the wild! Tom Ricardi of the Massachusetts Bird of Prey Raptor Rehabilitation Facility in Conway was our special guest, and…

FirstLight welcomes regional workforce development officials

December 4, 2019

FirstLight Power was delighted to welcome representatives from Greenfield Community College, MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center, Franklin County Chamber of Commerce, the Franklin Regional Council of Governments, and the Town of Erving on November 26th for a tour of FirstLight’s Northfield Mountain energy storage facility. The visit also offered GCC’s newly named Chief Workforce Development…

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