http://www.hartfordbusiness.com By: Matt Pilon March 7, 2016 Energy policy is ever changing in Connecticut and despite a sharp focus this legislative session on growing budget deficits, lawmakers are considering a flurry of bills that would impact Connecticut’s energy landscape, particularly in the renewables sector. Clean energy advocates are pushing policy changes that hint at […]
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Proposed fix for stalled shared-solar program heads to legislature
Connecticut Green Guide March 1, 2016 The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is attempting to get a stalled “shared-solar” pilot program back on track. A legislative committee on Tuesday accepted public testimony on a bill that would allow Eversource and Avangrid to recover the cost of administering the program, which was signed into law […]
Green Guide, SolarFuelCell Negotiating $24M Federal Contract
HartfordBusiness.com September 1, 2015 Danbury clean energy manufacturer FuelCell Energy on Tuesday announced it had been selected to perform as $23.7 million carbon capture project for the U.S. Department of Energy, pending a negotiation on the deal between the two sides. The project seeks to install a two-megawatt fuel cell system onto the exhaust from […]
Fuel CellCalifornia Fuel Cell to Power Hartford Microgrid
HartfordBusiness.com August 18, 2015 California fuel cell maker Bloom Energy will provide one of its units to power the Hartford microgrid the city received $2.1 million in state money to start. Hartford selected Bloom over Connecticut fuel cell manufacturers FuelCell Energy of Danbury and Doosan of South Windsor. Part of the reason Gov. Dannel P. […]
Doosan, FuelCell Energy, HBJCT Green Bank Crowdfunds $1M in Solar Loans
HartfordBusiness.com August 18, 2015 The Connecticut Green Bank has become the first government agency to successfully use private crowdfunding to provide private financing for solar incentive programs. The Green Bank packaged $1 million of its loan programs and sold that bundle to solar crowdfunding platform Mosaic, which in turn offered it to its individual investors. […]
Green Bank, HBJFeeding the Beast: SunEdison Plans to Buy Vivint Solar for $2.2 Billion
GreenTechSolar Stephen Lacey July 20, 2015 With yet another multi-billion-dollar acquisition in the works, SunEdison isn’t just strengthening its position as one of the world’s top renewable energy developers — it is on a mission to become one of the largest energy companies in any sector. This morning, SunEdison announced plans to acquire Vivint Solar, […]
SolarGreen Bank Extends Solarize U Program
HartfordBusiness.com June 16, 2015 The Connecticut Green Bank has extended its Solarize U program to Aug. 31 in order to get more signups for the shared discount pricing program. Solarize U is very similar to the Green Bank’s Solarize CT program, where a solar installer will offer discounts to residents of a city or town […]
Green Bank, Solarize UCTtransit to Buy Doosan Fuel Cell for Hamden Facility
HartfordBusiness.com June 16, 2015 Connecticut’s mass transportation division CTtransit announced Tuesday it will purchase a 400 kilowatt fuel cell from South Windsor manufacturer Dooan in order to power a maintenance and storage facility in Hamden. This is the second fuel cell system to power a CTtransit facility. The first at its Hartford garage went live […]
Doosan, Fuel CellCreative Solar Finance Grows the Pool of PV Investors and Customers
GreenTechSolar Eric Wesoff May 28, 2015 SolarCity allows smaller investors to take on tax equity; Conergy goes big in commercial PACE. Tax equity investments have helped drive the phenomenal recent growth of the multi-billion-dollar solar industry — but it’s mostly the big banks that have gotten in on the action. Investors in solar tax equity […]
C-PACE, Solar, SolarCityDoosan names first COO
HartfordBusiness.com April 10, 2015 South Windsor clean energy manufacturer Doosan Fuel Cell has named Sathya Motupally as the first ever chief operating officer for newly acquired company. Motupally previously served as the company’s vice president of research, originally starting with the fuel cell maker in 2002 when it was owned by Farmington conglomerate United Technologies […]
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