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Groton submarine builder tapped for its expertise in design, engineering work Groton – Electric Boat is part of a team that will propose a design for the next generation of U.S. nuclear power plants. Building new nuclear reactors that can provide a source of clean energy is a key element in President Barack Obama’s climate-change strategy. EB to have a hand in development of future U.S. nuclear power plants | The Day. Pomfret science team finishes 1st in New England Middle School Science Bowl competitionThe Science Bowl is held annually at the University of Connecticut, and 2010 marked the fourth year a team from Pomfret Community School participated in the race, teacher Tim Hotchkiss said. via Pomfret students’ solar car races to win – Norwich Bulletin. The town has reached a settlement agreement with Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P) that puts a fuel cell project at the schools one step closer to reality. The Board of Selectmen met last Thursday, March 4, and agreed to allow First Selectman Gayle Weinstein to sign an agreement with CL&P that allows Weston to “net meter”— add together — its electric accounts at Weston High School and Weston Middle School. via Fuel cell project: Weston reaches agreement with CL&P | Weston Forum. EAST GRANBY — A proposal on the Connecticut Siting Council’s docket of hearings, scheduled to allow Connecticut Light and Power to run high-voltage utility wires above-ground through East Granby along Newgate Road and through surrounding towns is one step closer to being passed. via Residents concerned about CL&P plan to install overhead power lines | The Granby News. In Connecticut three towns are turning their attention to water power. In a sense they want to go back in time, tapping into a local river for electricity. In water there is power. Hydroelectric power. This abandoned powerhouse is one of two on the Farmington River in Collinsville, Connecticut. The Collins Company built the dams and power plants to provide electricity to its plant. The powerhouses went on line in 1935. via Connecticut towns turn attention to water power | NECN. MONTPELIER, Vt. — Two weeks after lawmakers voted to close Vermont Yankee in 2012, Vermont regulators are being pressed to act sooner — shutting it down immediately — because of leaking tritium that environmental groups say is polluting the environment. On Wednesday, the state Public Service Board opens an investigation sought by the Conservation Law Foundation and the New England Coalition, which say the nuclear power plant in southeastern Vermont should stop operating until the source of the leak — first reported two months ago — is found and fixed. via Anti-nuke groups want Vermont plant closed now – BostonHerald.com. Like it or not, China is the country cashing in on the green revolution. That’s a problem for America, according to Kenneth Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. “We’re going to have to end up using those technologies on a very large scale,” Lieberthal said. “The question is whether we are producing them – or whether we have to end up buying them from the Chinese or others because we didn’t get our act together.” via How America Could Get Rich by Going Green – CBS Evening News – CBS News. HOUSTON—The chief executive of the Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world's largest crude producer, warned that enthusiasm for alternative energy could engender “green bubbles” as the new technologies “overpromise but then underdeliver.” via Aramco CEO Warns of ‘Green Bubbles’ – WSJ.com. HOUSTON — Energy Secretary Steven Chu told participants at a major energy industry gathering here that they need to accept a limit on carbon pollution and start finding ways to meet it. Chu’s remarks at CERAWeek fit the Obama administration’s narrative — that enacting rules to limit climate change won’t cost jobs. Rather, the administration says, a lack of such rules is preventing the United States from joining a global “clean energy economy.” via DOE Chief Urges Energy Leaders to Accept Curbs on Greenhouse Gases – NYTimes.com. Following the direction of the sun — and a marketplace that is increasingly demanding “green” building components — a local electric company has recently expanded its focus to include solar photovoltaic installations. Anderson Electric Inc., located in Pemberwick, has been nationally certified as a solar photovoltaic installer and is one of only a handful of contractors in the state to achieve the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners certification. via Local electrician follows the sun | Greenwich Post. New Haven’s successes have earned the city a prize, 23 kilowatts of solar arrays to be installed on public buildings. So far, a two-kilowatt array has been installed at Common Ground High School (pictured at the right of the roof). via New Haven Walks The Clean-Energy Walk | New Haven Independent. See also the story about the AFL-CIO taking aim at the CBIA here. A private girls’ high school in Middlebury flipped the switch last month on a 520-panel solar power system that will account for at least 25 percent of the electricity use on campus and save an estimated 15 percent on the school’s annual utility bill. The deal — which would have cost Westover $1 million without a partner — represents an ambitious collaboration among the school; Wilton-based Alteris Renewables; Solar Power Partners, Inc. in Mill Valley, Calif., and the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund. via Creative Deal Allows School To Flip Switch On Solar Power | Hartford Business. TORRINGTON, Conn. — Stop & Shop, Quincy, Mass., plans to use a 400-kilowatt fuel cell to generate power and heat in a new store opening here in late April. The fuel cell, provided by UTC Power, South Windsor, Conn., releases much less carbon dioxide than traditional power sources, and almost no other pollutants. In other supermarket installations, it has operated in concert with the U.S. electrical grid — with most of the energy coming from the fuel cell — and as a stand-alone generator when the grid is unavailable. via Stop & Shop to Use Fuel-Cell Power in Conn. Store | Supermarket News. HARTFORD — State labor leaders and union-endorsed legislators came out with “guns blazing” Thursday. Though the announced purpose of the press conference in the Legislative Office Building was an unveiling of Connecticut AFL-CIO’s 2010 legislative agenda, the target was often the Connecticut Business & Industry Association. Sstate Sen. Edith Prague, D-Norwich, chairwoman of the labor committee, said every time a bill comes before her committee that would protect workers “CBIA comes in and beats us up. State AFL-CIO President John Olsen, Secretary-Treasurer Lori Pelletier noted the irony of green manufacturing — “The clean energy fund gave out $70 million for installation of 1,100 solar panels; 70 percent of the hardware for those solar panels was made overseas,” she said. via AFL-CIO unveils legislative agenda, takes aim at CBIA – The Bristol Press. The Concept Clinic is a forum designed to provide consultative advice to an enterprise in the earliest stages of development. In this case the panel will provide feedback on the concept behind the creation of Earth Marketsboth in terms of its business plan as well as being an example of an emerging class of social ventures, largely “ahead of their time” initiatives, usually ahead of funding, but wrestling with similar issues that would face any emerging enterprise. Continue reading Center for Business and the Environment at Yale – Events New wind potential estimates for the lower 48 states based on windNavigator, AWS Truewind’s high-resolution wind resource dataset have been released. The estimates were produced in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and they mark the first comprehensive state-level assessment of the onshore wind resource potential since 1993. via US Wind Potential Higher Than Previously Estimated – Renewable Energy World. Last week, close to four thousand renewable energy professionals gathered in Austin, Texas to take part in the 7th Renewable Energy World Conference and Expo. Attendees took part in technical tours to places such as the Ercot Control Center and Austin Energy, conference sessions that covered pressing renewable energy topics and walked the show floor where more than 225 exhibitors showed off the latest renewable energy innovations. All proceedings were taped in front of a live studio audience and captured on video. You can see all the videos here. Oil and electricity have been tied together since the days of Rockefeller and Edison, and now a venerable Westport oil business and a Norwalk-based electricity supplier have joined forces at the retail level. Gault Energy, a Westport-based home heating provider, has added lower-cost electricity to its energy offerings by linking up with Verde Energy USA, a Connecticut-licensed Department of Public Utility Control electricity supplier. via Gault, Verde form energy partnership – NewsTimes. March 3 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, which has eight wind farms in the U.S., will start building three more in 2010 and 2011 as it expects to begin profiting from the operations this year. via BP to Start Building Three U.S. Wind Farms This Year and Next – BusinessWeek. Maine lawmakers are taking up a bill that has major implications for relations with Canada, future electricity costs, alternative energy development and jobs for Maine workers. Critics are worried the bill backed by the Baldacci administration doesn’t contain enough safeguards. “Maine could make better use of its existing corridors by utilizing them as utility corridors as well as perhaps highway corridors,” said John Cashman, a member of the Public Utilities Commission. Cashman told a public hearing that he was speaking not as a PUC member but as someone who served on a state commission to study energy infastructure last year. via Bill to Establish “Energy Corridors” Raises Concerns. |
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