HartfordBusiness.com By: Brad Kane December 8, 2014 While solar panels fly up on rooftops and fuel cells are installed throughout Connecticut, another type of renewable energy generation is slowly gaining steam in the state. Recent changes to state law governing renewable generation has increased interest in re-energizing old dams along Connecticut’s rivers and streams, with […]
HBJ, Hydropower, Paul Michaud, REEBAHartfordBusiness.com CNNMoney January 8, 2014 Over the past few years there’s been a lot of talk about green jobs. But one renewable sector scantly mentioned actually supports more jobs than wind or solar combined: Hydro. Between 200,000 and 300,000 people currently work in or around hydroelectric dams across the United States, according to the National […]
HBJ, HydropowerHartford 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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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 […]
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