March 10, 2003—The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund has selected twenty-four of the sixty proposals it received in response to the first phase of its 2002 Fuel Cell Request for Proposal, a program that promotes the commercial viability and development of fuel cell power generation.
The proposals represent projects with fuel cell capacity in excess of 2 megawatts, and involve participation of eleven fuel cell manufacturers. The total request for funding from the proposals approaches almost $26 million. The actual funding allocated for the 2002 Fuel Cell Request for Proposal program could potentially reach almost $9 million.
The program solicited two categories of projects: Commercial Operation Projects, which consist of the installation of commercially ready fuel cells in high value applications; and demonstration projects, which consist of the installation of near-commercial fuel cell units to track performance and gather data to accelerate their commercialization.
The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, administered by Connecticut Innovations, invests in enterprises and other initiatives that promote and develop sustainable markets for energy from renewables and fuel cells that will benefit the ratepayers of Connecticut.
