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Malaysian Reserve
07-05-2025
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
Kinsley Energy Systems Partners with Mainspring Energy to Solve Critical Grid Challenges
EAST GRANBY, Conn., May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Kinsley Energy Systems , a leader in onsite power solutions with a 60-year legacy in the energy industry, announces a new partnership with Mainspring Energy to deliver linear generators to commercial and industrial businesses and other high-demand facilities across the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and beyond. This collaboration combines Kinsley's unmatched onsite energy expertise and field service capabilities with Mainspring's innovative linear generator technology. This partnership arrives at a crucial time as the nation grapples with reducing high electricity costs, replacing aging infrastructure and meeting state emissions reduction goals. Kinsley's role has always been to deliver when the grid cannot—from deploying emergency power during snowstorms and hurricanes to providing the only field service response team in the region with a guaranteed response time of 4-hours or better. With the addition of Mainspring's modular linear generator, Kinsley expands its energy portfolio with a highly efficient, dispatchable, and fuel-flexible solution that runs on renewable natural gas, hydrogen, and other gaseous fuels while maintaining near-zero NOx emissions. This offering provides businesses reliable, cost-effective on-site power that also meets emissions reductions goals. A Game-Changing Power Solution Kinsley has built its reputation by identifying the safest, most efficient, and most forward-thinking technologies in the market. Mainspring's linear generator is a perfect fit—combining operational savings with emissions reductions. 'Our customers rely on Kinsley to find innovative ways to meet their environmental goals while maintaining operational efficiency and financial performance,' said Kurt West, VP of Kinsley Energy Systems. 'Mainspring's technology is a game-changer, providing a flexible, high-efficiency solution that allows businesses to take control of their energy future. We're thrilled to add linear generators to our portfolio and accelerate deployment to our customers.' A Partnership of Innovation and Stability Mainspring's linear generator technology offers unmatched fuel flexibility, efficiency, and grid resilience—addressing the most pressing challenges in today's energy landscape. 'Our partnership with Kinsley Energy Systems represents a major step forward in making our technology accessible to a broader range of high-energy users,' said Wissam Balshe, Senior Director of Channel Partnerships at Mainspring. 'With Kinsley's decades of experience, deep relationships, and proven ability to deliver, we're confident this partnership will bring meaningful solutions to energy challenges.' Founded in 2010, Mainspring Energy manufactures and delivers innovative, flexible, low-emissions, modular power generators that rapidly add new power capacity and deliver reliable, affordable, low-emissions electric power. Mainspring began commercial shipments of its linear generators in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in field operations and advanced development for leading Fortune 500 companies, data center developers, and utilities. About Kinsley Energy Systems Kinsley Energy Systems (KES) provides innovative solutions and services to address the country's energy infrastructure and environmental challenges. KES is part of Kinsley Group—one of the nation's premier on-site power providers for 60 years. Drawing on this legacy of excellence, KES focuses on solving ever-evolving energy demands with comprehensive solutions that enhance resiliency, reduce operational costs and lower carbon emissions. KES is behind some of the country's most successful sustainable on-site energy projects and brings Kinsley's commitment to exceptional customer service to advanced commercial and industrial turnkey microgrids. With a strong energy solutions focus and decades of experience, KES is dedicated to helping businesses achieve their energy goals through sustainable, reliable, and innovative solutions. For more information on how Kinsley Energy Systems and Mainspring Energy can help your business achieve energy independence and sustainability, please visit us here . Media Contacts: Kinsley Energy Systems Nathan Hardt Market Engagement Manager 959.262.4610 nhardt@ Mainspring Energy Maria Amundson Chief Communications Officer media@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Kinsley Energy Systems
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Kittery social services hub aims to be a one-stop shop to battle poverty
Feb. 7—KITTERY — When Teri Hoxie was homeless and sleeping in her car behind a highway rest stop, she didn't think anyone could help. She felt isolated and alone. For more than three years, she worried constantly about how to get food, how to care for her children, how to stay safe. But then she found the Footprints food pantry in Kittery, where she connected with people who pointed her toward housing assistance. "The food assistance that came out of the food pantry helped stabilize me significantly. Accessing housing help stabilize me even more," said Hoxie, 39, who has since moved into an apartment and started her own 3-D printing business. The leaders of a new community resources hub in Kittery hope that bringing the resources that Hoxie depended on together under one roof will make it easier. Mainspring, a new community resource hub that brings together agencies that address housing, food insecurity and other needs, is opening after several years of planning and a capital campaign that raised more than $6 million for the facility's design and construction. It is founded by Fair Tide, an affordable housing agency, and Footprints, which addresses food insecurity. Emily Flinkstrom, co-founder of Mainspring and Fair Tide's executive director, said the idea came from conversations with Footprints Executive Director Megan Shapiro-Ross about how to better assist people in southern York County and seacoast New Hampshire, where 10% of people live below the poverty line and nearly 9% of residents are food insecure. In York County, 40% of residents struggle to afford basic necessities, according to the United Way. "There are multiple entry points into our very complicated and fragmented social service system, but it's really hard to know where those are and it's really hard to know if you're eligible," Flinkstrom said. "And then once you're in, it's even more difficult to get from one (agency) to another." Mainspring is intended to be a one-stop shop for social services, while also creating a place for the community to gather in a way that restores dignity and breaks down stigmas. In addition to Footprints and Fair Tide, the Shapleigh Road building will also house an outreach worker from York County Community Action Corp. Other partners will hold regular hours at the hub, including Pine Tree Legal, Southern Maine Agency on Aging, MaineHealth and the Triangle Club, which offers peer recovery support. Volunteers of America Northern New England will offer veteran services, and daytime classes will be hosted by the local adult education program. The money needed to create Mainspring was raised through a capital campaign that has nearly reached its $6.3 million goal. York County commissioners allocated $750,000 from American Rescue Plan Act funds for the project and $1 million came from federal funds. The towns of Kittery and Eliot gave money to the project and gifts from $5 to $1 million came from individuals and businesses. "The fact that we raised that much money in a relatively short period of time speaks to the trust that people have in our community and what we're doing, and the belief that this is needed," Flinkstrom said. 'IT RESTORED THEIR DIGNITY' Some of the services offered at Mainspring won't be fully in place until next month, but Fair Tide's thrift store opens this weekend with a community grand opening celebration. Footprints, which previously operated out of the garage of an old mechanic shop, opened in its new space in January and has already seen an uptick in people coming in for food. Even before it opened in the new space, the need for food assistance in the region was obvious: Over the past year, Footprints has seen a 67% increase in households served. In just the last three weeks, 47 new households have come to the market. Inside, a table is covered with bins of produce and shelves are neatly stacked with cans and boxes of food. Behind the deli counter, coolers are stocked with eggs, milk and meat. A play area for children, complete with tiny aprons, is tucked in one corner. Outside, refrigerated lockers will be used for grocery orders for people who can't get to the market during the day. The market is open five days a week and operates on an abundance model, Shapiro-Ross said. People can come in as often as they need and are free to shop for the groceries they need without limits on certain items. "We've seen tears because there are grocery carts now," Shapiro-Ross said. "It's restored their dignity in shopping." Shapiro-Ross said Footprints' offerings go far beyond basic groceries. Footprints has merged with Table of Plenty and will offer a community supper cooked in the new commercial kitchen on Thursday nights. Two days a week, the market will open as a breakfast cafe to mitigate social isolation and reduce the stigma of walking into the building, she said. Footprints is also planning to offer cooking and nutrition classes and will launch a culinary job training program. REDUCING BARRIERS While the idea of co-locating nonprofits in one space is not new, Mainspring will use a new centralized intake system that leaders hope will reduce barriers to services. With the new system, people will share their situation once — a process that can be traumatizing to repeat again and again, Flinkstrom said — while allowing agencies to share case management and collect data to help them better address the root causes of poverty in the community. Shapiro-Ross believes this method will help change a system that can be overwhelming and "is set up where the individuals are to blame for their own situations." "It's them and them alone. Most families are trying to get to the food pantry during open hours or to the housing office or to their WIC appointment while also raising families and working a job or two," she said. Hoxie, who still goes to Footprints occasionally, hopes the new model will help others more easily access the resources that she struggled to find. "I really did go from feeling super overwhelmed and super isolated to bit by bit bringing normalcy back into my life," she said. Copy the Story Link
