By Brad Kane February 10, 2014 As Dan Esty departs his position as Connecticut’s top energy and environmental officer, he says it’s important his successors continue to push for new energy infrastructure throughout New England. “I wish I had gotten that further down the track,” Esty said. “I have worked hard over the last three […]
EstyHartfordBusiness.com January 23, 2014 The chief of staff at the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection will take over as commissioner when Dan Esty resigns the post Feb. 3, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will announce on Wednesday afternoon. Robert Klee has served as Esty’s chief of staff since April 2011 and will be the […]
DEEP, Esty, Klee, REEBABy: Jan Ellen Spiegel | January 22, 2014 In June 2011, Dan Esty, then head of the Department of Environmental Protection, sat in a New Haven café over a late breakfast and looked a few weeks into the future to when the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection he was creating would officially exist. […]
CT Mirror, DEEP, Energy Efficiency, Esty, REEBAThe Hartford Courant By BRIAN DOWLING, bdowling@courant.com HARTFORD — Energy and Environmental Commissioner Daniel C. Esty, the Yale University professor and environmental consultant hired in 2011 to lead a major state agency through a period of broad consolidation and planning, is leaving office in February. Esty said he is resigning to resume his tenured position […]
DEEP, Esty, Hartford CourantHartfordBusiness.com By: Brad Kane/Matt Pilon A New York solar company has sued Department of Energy & Environmental Protection Commissioner Daniel Esty over what it argues was an invalid process that led to the awarding of more than $1 billion worth of wholesale renewable energy contracts in September. Allco Finance Ltd. was one of a number […]
DEEP, Esty, WindBy: Patrick Gallagher Connecticut’s energy costs rank among the highest in the nation. For the first four months of 2013, electricity in Connecticut averaged 15.64 cents per kilowatt hour versus 9.70 cents per kilowatt hour nationally. But new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration show Connecticut’s energy costs during the first four months of […]
Clean Energy, Esty, MicrogridsBy: Patrick Gallagher WestfairOnline Connecticut will invest $18 million in nine microgrids, or electric generators that can operate independent of the grid, as officials seek to mitigate the impacts of blackouts. The microgrid pilot program, which was announced July 24 in Bridgeport, is aimed at promoting the development of natural gas-powered turbines, diesel generators, solar […]
DEEP, Esty, MicrogridsBy BRIAN DOWLING The Hartford Courant BRIDGEPORT — As part of the state’s plan to better prepare for destructive storms, Connecticut officials on Wednesday announced nine microgrid projects that will receive a total of $18 million in funding. The projects will connect neighborhoods or communities with a small power plants, like a fuel-cell or a […]
Esty, MicrogridsBy: Hartford Business Journal Connecticut officials want to more than double the number of electric vehicle charging stations this year, the state’s Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) announced. DEEP Commissioner Dan Esty, who was slated to speak at an electric vehicle expo this morning at Middlesex Community College, said the goal of […]
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