April 14, 2003—The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) recently selected its Photovoltaic (PV) Program Request for Proposal finalists. These projects represented total investments of $3.6 million and requested $2.3 million in funding support. They will coordinate the development of solar power projects that carry investments in excess of $1 million in total costs and will result in additional solar PV capacity of approximately 100 kilowatts.
The projects are:
- The Fairfield Water Pollution Control & Compost Facility will integrate solar power into a new compost processing facility at the existing water pollution control facility and will complement other distributed power-generation.
- The City of Hamden will install solar-powered traffic light.
- The Stamford Katrina Mygatt Recycling Center will utilize solar energy to power its facility lighting.
- The Hamden Government Center project will use solar power to charge it’s backup battery, provide emergency lighting, and provide power to the electric grid.
- The Whitneyville Pumping Station in Hamden will use solar power during critical peak summer periods.
- The Salmon Brook Ecology Center’s solar system will integrate with a self-sustaining aquaculture/hydroponics green facility.
- CT Transit in Hartford will incorporate energy efficiency measures with solar power in a bus maintenance facility to help improve the economics of PV projects.
