By: Paul R. Michaud Connecticut Green Guide in 2012, about 90 Connecticut companies decided to go green and, in turn, save some green by installing solar systems at their places of business. This was made possible in large part due to a third-party financing arrangement called a solar power purchase agreement, or SPPA. A SPPA […]
Renewable Energy, Solar Energy
Fairfield County Business Journal — Western Connecticut State University announced it will be generating its own power beginning April 25 in a Danbury science building using fuel cell technology. A clean alternative energy, fuel cells produce electricity through natural gas. With the new system, the university stands to save $25,000 per year over the next decade… Read Full Article »
Clean Energy, Fuel Cell
Hartford Business Journal – Fuel cell manufacturer ClearEdge Power has landed part of a $100-million, seven-state clean energy deal to power 19 Verizon facilities, creating the South Windsor company’s largest single-user project. ClearEdge will install its PureCell fuel cell systems at Verizon sites in California, New York, and New Jersey, generating 60 million kilowatt hours […]
Clean Energy, Fuel CellHartford Business Journal – April 1 20, 2013 Connecticut’s legislation to bring 300 megawatts of Canadian hydropower as state-designated renewable energy doesn’t need the $1.2 billion Northern Pass transmission in New Hampshire and Quebec. “The amounts that are in the bill could come over existing transmission lines,” said Jessie Stratton, director of policy for the […]
DEEP, Hydropower, Renewable EnergyThe CT Mirror, March 26, 2013, By Jan Ellen Spiegel Plans to rush major energy legislation through the General Assembly as soon as Wednesday are raising cries of foul from dozens of normally unaligned groups. Their concerns are prompted in part by timing: It’s two months before the draft report most of the legislation is […]
Renewable EnergyHartford Business Journal – March 20, 2013 Connecticut’s clean energy industry came out swinging on Tuesday against Connecticut’s proposed changes to its renewable power definition, giving legislators an earful in the proposals first public hearing. “The bill would incentivize foreign import of Canadian hydro,” said Michael Trahan, executive director of the trade association Solar Connecticut…. […]
Clean Energy, Renewable EnergyCT News Junkie by Christine Stuart | Mar 20, 2013 5:29am DEEP Commissioner Daniel Esty appears to have convinced the Energy and Technology Committee’s chairmen this week that the state should focus more of its renewable energy portfolio on wind, solar, and Canadian hydropower. But he didn’t win over everyone…. Read Full Article
DEEP, Renewable Energy
HARTFORD (March 18, 2013) – The Renewable Energy and Efficiency Business Association, Inc. (REEBA) opposes Proposed Substitute Bill 1138, An Act Concerning Connecticut’s Clean Energy Goals, voicing strong objection to its wholesale legislative changes to the state’s renewable portfolio standard program (RPS). “Put simply, this bill proposes unprecedented changes to Connecticut’s renewable portfolio standard and […]
DEEP, Hydropower, Renewable EnergyThe Hartford Courant 8:46 p.m. EDT, March 18, 2013 State environmental officials are trying to decrease reliance on energy from wood-burning biomass and tap into hydropower from dams in Canada to help meet its escalating renewable-energy targets, something it expects this year to miss for the first time. “The incentives in this marketplace haven’t produced […]
DEEP, Hydropower, Renewable Energy
Summary of Public Act Number 11-80: An Act Concerning the Establishment of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Planning for Connecticut’s Energy Future June 13, 2011 The Connecticut legislature passed significant legislation that consolidates the development and implementation of Connecticut’s environmental and energy policy within a new, expanded Department of Energy and Environmental […]
Clean Energy, DEEP, DOE, Energy Efficiency