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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.
TORRINGTON — Sen. Chris Dodd stopped at the Torrington-based FuelCell company to unveil his plan to usher in a new era of manufacturing success for Connecticut before he leaves office.
via U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd’s clean energy push unveiled at FuelCell – The Register Citizen.
TORRINGTON — – FuelCell Energy has won so much business from Connecticut utilities that it plans to expand its Torrington factory operations, which now employ 220.
via FuelCell Energy To Expand Business To Torrington – Courant.com.
TORRINGTON — Senator Christopher Dodd will visit Fuel Cell Energy in Torrington to unveil his fuel cell plan to power the creation of new clean energy jobs for Connecticut.
via WEB FIRST: Dodd to present fuel cell plan in Torrington – The Register Citizen.
Bloom Energy, a Sunnyvale startup that has been working for years on a fuel cell that would allow homes and businesses to generate their own electricity, officially unveiled its so-called Bloom Box at a highly orchestrated media event Wednesday morning.
Tech journalists joined Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bloom cofounder and CEO K.R. Sridhar, venture capitalist John Doerr and former Secretary of State Colin Powell at eBay's San Jose headquarters to learn how Bloom, which has raised about $400 million from investors, plans to mass produce its solid oxide fuel cells.
via Bloom Energy unveils its ‘Bloom Box’ fuel cell – San Jose Mercury News.
Silicon Valley start-up Bloom Energy is unveiling a fuel-cell product Wednesday that can power a small office building. It expects to have home systems within a decade that are about the size of a loaf of bread, it says.
Bloom’s technology gives users the ability to produce electricity — as opposed to buying it from utilities — and has the potential to extend electricity to parts of the world lacking traditional power systems and lines, Bloom says.
With Bloom’s fuel cell, air and fuel — such as natural gas, ethanol or biogas — are fed into the cell. The oxygen ions react with the fuel to produce electricity. There’s no burning, so the fuel cell is two-thirds cleaner than coal-fired plants, Bloom says.
via Clean, cheap power from fuel cells in a box? – USATODAY.com.
Barely beating a 2 p.m. deadline, Trumbull’s legislative contingent won a hearing for a proposed bill giving the Siting Council greater power in denying fuel cell system placement. The approval of a public hearing comes less than 24 hours after more than 150 residents turned out at a community meeting to voice opposition to a plan to place such a facility on Huntington Tpke.
via NEW: Legislators win hearing on fuel cell placement | Trumbull Times.
 Bruce Becker discusses the 360 State project with an audience at New Haven Green Drinks Feb. 17, 2010 Bruce Becker has tried to do the right thing. That may have been his mistake.
Becker is the developer of nearly completed 360 State Street, a 32-story, 500-unit apartment building in New Haven. The building, which will contain retail space and enclosed parking for 500 cars, is one of the largest residential buildings ever built in the state.
I have been following this project, in part to see if Becker is able to attain his goal of making it one of the state’s greenest buildings as well. He’s trying to make his the state’s first residential building to achieve LEED Platinum Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
The state isn’t making it easy.
via New Haven Fuel Cell Wrapped In Red Tape – Courant.com.
360 State is expected to receive LEED Platinum. The project will have half the carbon footprint of a comparable urban apartment building and less than 20 percent of a typical suburban residential development. It will be the first on-site residential application of a fuel cell power plant in Connecticut. The 400KW fuel cell will provide for 92 percent of the building’s total electric demand and 100 percent of the building’s hot water demand, generating enough clean, renewable power for year-round heating of domestic hot water, the building’s heat pump water loop for space heating and the swimming pool.
Weston has leapt another hurdle in its quest to build a fuel cell to power some of the town’s schools. The state Department of Public Utilty Control (DPUC) on Monday issued a draft of a declaratory ruling allowing the town to aggregate electric consumption at the high school and middle school and to apply that net amount against electricity generated by a fuel cell the town wants to install at the middle school.
via Fuel cell project at Weston schools gets jump start from DPUC | Weston Forum.
Store will be First Supermarket in California and Third Whole Foods Market to Generate Bulk of Power with Fuel Cell
UTC Power, a United Technologies company, has announced that Whole Foods Market has chosen clean, reliable on-site fuel cell power to power a new store in San Jose, Calif. This marks the third Whole Foods Market to install a PureCell system provided by UTC Power. The other stores are in Dedham, Mass., and Glastonbury, Conn., according to UTC Power.
Fuel cells are one of the cleanest energy-generation sources available in the world and meet the strictest U.S. emission standards. Highly energy efficient and virtually pollution-free, fuel cells produce electricity, heat and water through an electrochemical process.
Continue reading UTC Power Fuel Cell to generate clean power on-site for California Whole Foods Market
One of the big issues facing hydrogen is just where we’re supposed to fill the cars that might run on the stuff. SunHydro, a Connecticut company, is answering that question on the East Coast with plans for a “hydrogen highway” that will extend from Portland, Maine to southern Florida.
via A Hydrogen Highway For The East Coast | Wired.com.
HARTFORD – Congressman John B. Larson will facilitate a Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Roundtable Forum on the growing value of Connecticut’s hydrogen and fuel cell industry to the state’s environment and economy. This forum, open to the public, is scheduled for Friday, January 22 from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at Goodwin College in East Hartford.
Congressman Larson will be among a group of state and legislative leaders, state agency executives, and experts who will be addressing the current status of fuel cell development, the industry’s economic value, and potential for job creation in Connecticut.
Continue reading Event: Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Roundtable Forum 1 to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 22, East Hartford
The Clean Air Act is a critical tool in the fight against global warming. But U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is leading a sweeping effort to block President Barack Obama and the EPA from enforcing it. Her efforts would strike at the heart of the law and effectively restrict the agency from addressing the most profound environmental problem of our time.
via Clean Air Act is vital to global warming fight – Norwich Bulletin.
The Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI) Student Congress invites you to: “What Happened in Copenhagen and Why? Eyewitness Accounts from Participants” from 2 to 3:15 p.m., Friday, Jan. 29 (reception to follow) at Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut.
The event will feature:
Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri YCEI Director and IPCC Chair
Brad Gentry Senior Lecturer and UNFCCC Secretariat
Nasser Brahim Alliance of Small Island States Secretariat
Kartikeya Singh Maldives Delegation
Angel Hsu Green Leap Forward Blogger
Other participants to be confirmed
What were the Copenhagen negotiations all about? What was it like to be there and how do the negotiations really operate? What does the agreement mean for future climate change policy? This December Yale had a major presence at Copenhagen, with over fifty students and several faculty and staff members attending in various capacities: supporting national delegations, working for the secretariat, blogging, lobbying, and learning about the process. Come hear personal accounts of these experiences as well as analysis of the conference outcomes and process. Short panel presentations will be followed by an extensive question and answer session.
Tell them you read about it in CT Environmental Headlines.
Pauline Cantwell of Old Greenwich will be speaking and facilitating a discussion on geoengineering solutions to combat global warming titled “The Technical Fix for Climate Change” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24 at the Greenwich Library.
Some believe it is likely that the increasingly bizarre weather is a result of the geoengineering solutions begun in the early 1990s designed to “cool the planet.” Scientists, the military, governments, corporations and private citizens are openly going forward with plans to radically terraform the entire planet.
via Cantwell to speak about a ‘fix for climate change’ | Greenwich Post.
Obama administration officials “need to align together” to work on reducing the nation’s total vehicle miles traveled — work that should go beyond a pending congressional climate bill — the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) air-quality chief said today.
Gina McCarthy, EPA’s assistant administrator for air and radiation, acknowledged in a speech at EMBARQ’s transportation conference that her agency as “less effective” working alone on crafting strategies to cut VMT. McCarthy was formerly Connecticut DEP commissioner.
via Streetsblog Capitol Hill » EPA Air Chief: We Need to Do More to Reduce VMT.
A generational battle erupted at a forum about how humans and other living things can adapt to climate change in Connecticut.
The exchange took place Tuesday night as members of the Adaptation Subcommittee of the Governor’s Committee on Climate Change held their second meeting at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station on Huntington Street in New Haven.
via Generations Clash On Climate Change | New Haven Independent.
Clean Air-Cool Planet, a climate change organization based in Portsmouth, NH; New Canaan, CT; and Washington, DC; is seeking a qualified Director of Development to be based in our New Canaan, CT office. Clean Air-Cool Planet works to solve climate change through civic engagement, education and effective policy. The organization partners with communities, campuses, businesses, and science centers to seek and implement innovative and practical solutions to global warming, and advocates smart policies at the national level. Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) has also recently launched a major effort to reduce the impacts of climate change in the Arctic.
via Clean Air – Cool Planet | Climate Friendly Job Opportunities.
 At 50 miles wide, the Bering Strait, which separates Alaska from Russia, hardly seems like a major player in Earth’s climate.
But a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience concludes that this shallow strait between the North Pacific and the Arctic oceans has played a large role in climate fluctuations during recent ice ages. Depending on whether it’s closed or open, the strait dramatically changes the distribution of heat around the planet.
via How the Bering Strait influences Earth’s climate / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com.
A coalition of energy producers and consumers says Connecticut and 10 other states that are developing a low-carbon fuel standard could cause “logistical problems” as the market tries to meet new mandates.
Michael Whatley, vice president of the nonprofit Consumer Energy Alliance, said Monday that the transportation sector does not yet have the infrastructure that would be needed if a low-carbon fuel standard is adopted.
via Low-carbon initiative could pose problems for state – The New Haven Register.
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