Earlier this week, I was invited to attend the dedication ceremonies of 119 solar panels mounted on the roof of the headquarters of Fuss & O’Neill, a national civil and environmental engineering firm in Manchester, CT.  As a leader in developing environmental and energy engineering solutions, the firm, led by its green team, decided that [...]

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Rocky Hill, Conn. -A state energy group has voted to release enough money to assist about 300 homeowners in the state in buying and installing solar panels. With the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund board’s decision to release the funds, the state and federal government will pay nearly half of the cost of a homeowner’s solar [...]

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Stamford, Conn. – The warehouse of a one-time brass factory in Waterbury, Conn., may soon be the home to a new food-waste-to-energy power facility. The Hartford Courant reports that a group of Massachusetts investors operating under the name Chestnut Hill Bioenergy have signed an agreement to buy the 17-acre property that was once home to [...]

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Bloomfield, Conn. — According the Arizona Republic, the Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) is teaming with Lockheed Martin Corp. and Greenwich based Starwood Energy Group, private-equity firm, to build solar-power plant west of Phoenix. The $1.5 billion plant, to be built and run by Lockheed Martin Corp., should be operating by 2013 and, in combination [...]

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Connecticut has a decent inventory of green buildings.  The first wave was commercial structures, then schools on all levels, manufacturing facilities and public institutions.  I’ve even blogged about religious and sports venues in the state incorporating some aspect of sustainable design.  Based on some recent news reports, the latest types of structures considering green enhancements [...]

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West Hartford, Conn. – Herman Miller, Inc. a leading global provider of interior furnishings and related technologies and services, and Legrand North America, an innovative manufacturer of electrical and network infrastructure solutions based in West Hartford, CT – have announced a strategic alliance designed to broaden the reach of energy management strategies to fuel the [...]

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