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Fall, 2009

Community Energy Systems looking for the future today
CES is looking for people in central Illinois but particularly in Sangamon County who are practicing future energy activities in their homes or businesses today. "We know that there are people out there who are cutting their utility bills by using devices and practices that everyone in the future will use", said Doug Nicodemus, President of the Board. CES would like to create a catalogue of those people and their places in the up-coming months.

If you are using any of the following please let us know: Photovoltaics of any kind, wind or hydro generation of any kind, super insulated or rammed earth (underground) housing or business, solar water preheat systems, tank less water heaters, geothermal heat pumps, and anything else you may consider earth friendly energy services.

"This is not a definitive list, said Dave Fuchs, CES's Vice President and Government Liaison, "We encourage anybody being inventive, like making their own biodiesel, using stoves that burn corn, doing green rehabilitations of buildings to get a hold of us. Also if people know of people doing this please contact us. We can contact that person and put them in the catalogue anonymously. Some people are shy about publicity or tooting their own horns. We respect that."

CES is excited by this project. We hope to be able to post the results on our website and in the newsletter in the future.

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