Dowses Beach & Avangrid/Commonwealth Wind documents
Avangrid, the developer, wants to land electric power infrastructure at Dowses, run it under the public beach and causeway, through our business district, and year-round residential areas. The documents below will help you be informed and develop a view.
Planned Grid Transmission or beach-by-beach, fight-by-fight?
Read this: they can, as everybody says, "find another way"
Download PDFAvangrid Oct 26th investor call: "no Commonwealth Wind...
"...without shifting costs to electricity consumers through renegotiated contracts. Effort will take at least 9 months."
Avangrid Investors Highlights Oct 26 2022 (pdf)
Download"Sense of the community" results
Should Avangrid land power infrastructure at Dowses Beach? If so, what route then? There are claims of community support that travel with Community Host Agreements. No professional researchers here, but someone had to actually ask.
Survey Results (pdf)
DownloadAvangrid delay & motion for suspension of proceedings
On the left: Avangrid transcript with investors on the delay, just scroll to yellow highlighted area
On the right: "the Project is no longer viable and would not be able to move forward"
For OVA meeting with Town Manager Ells, Oct 4
About Avangrid's proposed project into and through Osterville
OVA handout Oct 4 2022 (pdf)
DownloadAvangrid investor presentation, start on page 36...
Investor-Day-September-2022 (pdf)
DownloadAvangrid answers to OVA initial questions, June 2022
Avangrid 6.22.22 responses (pdf)
DownloadDowses Beach on Avangrid's May 2020 “Less Preferable” list in EFSB Siting Petition for the Park City Wind
(Please see pages 4-9)
Avangrid I Dowses Not Preferable (pdf)
DownloadBarnstable's Town Code prohibiting obstruction of public access
Code: Obstruction of Access (pdf)
DownloadHost Community Agreement for Vineyard Wind Project 1, Avangrid & Barnstable
(Town commits support before final route selected)
Fully Executed Agreement VW1 (pdf)
DownloadHost Community Agreement for Connecticut's Park City Wind Project 2, Avangrid & Barnstable
(Town commits support before final route selected)
Host Agreement Park City Wind (pdf)
DownloadConsultant recommends planned transmission approach
(See pages 15-16)
Transmission-Options (pdf)
DownloadOsterville Village Association | OVAtoday.org