By Francesca Kefalas For The Bulletin PUTNAM — Town leaders are hoping a $10,000 grant will help the town move along a greener path. Town Administrator Douglas Cutler said the town has applied for a grant from Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to install two electric charging stations in the municipal parking lot on […]
DEEP, Murtha Cullina LLP, Paul MichaudHartfordBusiness.com The Town of Avon is looking for solar companies to design, install, finance, operate, and maintain renewable energy arrays at its municipal facilities. The Renewable Energy & Efficiency Business Association is administering the proposal process for Avon through Hartford law firm Murtha Cullina. Solar energy providers are also invited to submit proposals for monetized […]
Murtha Cullina LLP, Paul Michaud, REEBA, SolarHartford Business Journal Expert Corner – Paul R. Michaud Connecticut farmers traditionally grow crops such as vegetables, fruit, and tobacco, accounting for just over half of the state’s agricultural revenue. The other half comes from nurseries and greenhouses. But there is a new crop that may boost revenues for the industry — solar panels converting […]
Solar Energy, United IlluminatingBrad Kane Hartford Business.com Connecticut’s release of its previously secret 21-year, $1 billion clean energy program information is expected as early as Wednesday, but eight of the dozens of companies that participated are working to keep their information from the public, regulatory filings show. “It is a trade secret,” said Murtha Cullina attorney Paul Michaud, […]
Paul Michaud, PURA, Renewable Energy, ZRECThe CT Mirror After outcry, renewable energy project details to be revealed By Jan Ellen Spiegel Wednesday, July 10, 2013 The approval in 2011 of a revamped commercial renewable energy incentive program in Connecticut was heralded by the industry here, particularly solar companies. For years they’d wrestled with unreliable funding that left them constantly unsure […]
DEEP, PURA, ZRECHartford Business Journal by Brad Kane While Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly fulfilled their promise not to raise taxes on businesses this legislative session, many clean energy firms felt blindsided by an attempted raid of the funds dedicated to helping their industry grow. In the waning days of the legislative session […]
Renewable EnergyIt took a day or so for the smoke to clear on the House version of the budget -– and once it did, the energy and environment community was aghast. Funding for the Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority –- the state’s first-in-the-nation green bank — had been commandeered for general revenue. More than 20 […]
CEFIA, Renewable EnergyDear REEBA Members: As you may already know, on Sunday the CT House passed a bill raiding RGGI and CEFIA and diverting these monies to the General Fund. The proposed robbery is as follows: $5,000,000 from RGGI for FY 2015 $6,200,000 from CEFIA for FY 2104 $24,200,000 from CEFIA for FY 2015 The bill now […]
CEFIA, Renewable EnergySubmitted by: Lisa Ward, Clear Edge Power Sarah Boggess, Re-Energy Holdings Shaun Champan, Solar City Connecticut Senate Bill 1138, a bill that impacts the state renewable portfolio standards, or RPS, was met with a lot of anxiety by those of us in the renewable energy business community in Connecticut. Many of us felt that the […]
Clean Energy, Renewable EnergyHartford 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 […]
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