Dear Friend,

After eight years of working hard to inform, educate and empower citizens to support viable renewable energy projects and policies, Clean Power Now will be closing its doors at the end of 2011. This decision is bittersweet, but both the governing board and the staff feel that our core mission has been accomplished through our work as citizen advocates for America's first fully permitted offshore wind farm - Cape Wind. Today, a strong majority supports the Cape Wind project, and the project has cleared all local, state and federal reviews, with help from Clean Power Now at each step along the way.

The challenges to non-profits these days are well known and the offshore wind space has changed dramatically since the success with Cape Wind with a host of larger non-profits filling the space and competing for limited resources.

Over the years we have gained a tremendous amount of knowledge and are exploring ways to maximize the ongoing value of this intellectual capital to advance citizens voices in supporting the need for offshore wind projects and their significant public interest benefits.

We can not begin to express how grateful we are for the years of support from you and members like you. All that Clean Power Now has accomplished would not have been possible without our members who continued to volunteer, donate and support the mission. The results of your support are overwhelmingly evident - from the signing of the lease for Cape Wind to new regulations and citizen efforts to support other proposed offshore wind farms up and down the Atlantic seaboard and in the Great Lakes.

Thank you all for your tireless efforts over the years. If you would like to continue to receive information regarding the offshore wind industry we recommend that you sign up to receive Offshore Wind Wire. If you are interested in supporting local renewable energy initiatives we recommend that you join Cape & Islands Self Reliance, Cape and Islands Wind Information Network as well as CIRenew for news and updates within the Cape Cod community.

Thank you again for all of your support.

On behalf of the CPN Governing Board of Directors,

Barbara Hill
Executive Director