The Energy Committee received a grant in 2009 to increase Sandwich residents' knowledge and awareness of energy efficiency, energy conservation and renewable energy through printed and web-based resources and to actively reduce the carbon footprint of 250 of the town's 1,070 housing units with the distribution of compact fluorescent bulbs and insulating pipe foam. Through raised energy awareness, the group will increase citizen support of guidelines that promote energy conservation, efficiency and renewable energy in the town's Master Plan that is currently being reviewed and rewritten.