Microgrid Knowledge Elisa Wood February 17, 2016 Boston has identified dozens of potential microgrid sites that together with other community energy projects could save as much as $1.7 billion, according to a new report issued by the city. The Boston Community Energy Study maps specific locations for three kinds of microgrids: multipurpose microgrids, energy justice microgrids […]
MicrogridsConnecticut Green Guide February 16, 2016 Connecticut had 1,951 solar industry jobs in 2015, the 18th highest in the country per capita, according to a new survey conducted by an industry group. More than half of those jobs were installers, while 29 percent were sales and distribution positions, according to the Solar Foundation. Manufacturing accounted […]
Green Guide, SolarHartfordBusiness.com Matt Pilon February 8, 2016 Connecticut may soon source more of its clean energy from within its own borders, if newly proposed projects are successful in a unique and ongoing multi-state bidding process. A joint procurement by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island — the first of its kind for the states — garnered 24 […]
Real Clear Energy – Energy Collective by Johannes Urpelainen February 6, 2016 Over the past three decades, the governance of electricity generation has undergone a number of important reforms. In many countries, governments have moved away from the traditional state monopoly of generation, transmission, and distribution of power. In restructured electricity sectors, independent regulators and […]
Renewable EnergyClean Technica by Joshua S Hill February 5th, 2016 The US renewable energy industry installed 16 GW of clean energy in 2015, which is 68% of all new capacity installed. These are the primary findings from Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) Sustainable Energy in America Factbook report released this week, released in conjunction with the Business […]
Renewable EnergyThe CT Mirror by Jan Ellen Spiegel February 1, 2016 Shared solar – a way to make solar power available to homes that are unsuited for solar panels or renters who can’t have them – is having a balky go in Connecticut. After a two-session legislative battle that began in 2014 and resulted in approval of only a […]
SolarConnecticut Green Guide January 12, 2016 A proposed Beacon Falls fuel cell park, which would be the world’s largest, took a big step forward recently as it received the blessing of the Connecticut Siting Council. Though the council expressed reservations over the 63.3-megawatt parks’ projected carbon-dioxide emissions (265,000 tons per year), it ruled Jan. 8 […]
Fuel CellWall Street Journal By Cassandra Sweet Dec. 16, 2015 Solar and wind companies scored a major victory when U.S. lawmakers voted to extend lucrative federal subsidies for renewable energy late Tuesday night. The tax credits for new power projects fueled by wind turbines and solar panels have been key to the rapid expansion of renewable […]
Solar, WindHartfordBusiness.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 CellHartfordBusiness.com September 1, 2015 Stamford clean energy financier Greenworks Lending has closed four projects totaling $1 million under the Connecticut Green Bank’s C-PACE program, marking the first time such projects have been directly financed by a private lender. C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) allows commercial building owners to obtain low-interest, long-term loans with no […]
C-PACE, Green Guide, HBJHartford Business Journal August 27, 2015 A new report commissioned by a coalition of industry groups concludes that a failure to invest in natural gas and electricity infrastructure in New England will cost businesses and households billions of dollars in higher energy costs by 2020. Investment could also create or save as many as 168,000 […]
Energy Efficiency, Renewable EnergyInternational Business Times By Maria Gallucci on July 09 2015 Americans are putting more solar panels on their roofs than ever before. Yet only a small group of people — homeowners, mostly well-to-do — are driving the boom. Apartment dwellers, cash-strapped families, renters and others are largely shut out of the solar movement, sidelined by […]
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