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Yesterday evening, Connecticut Energy Commissioner Daniel Etsy, along with other state officials at the EVConnecticut Expo in Middletown, announced an exciting plan to dramatically improve the state’s relationship with electric vehicles. According to the announcement, $200,000 in state funds will be allocated to build new, convenient charging stations across the state to expand the extant network of public sites available to recharge an electric car. For the time being, comme

The facility, which UConn says is the first of its kind in the region, will treat wastewater using microfiltration and ultraviolet disinfection and then use that reclaimed water to cool the turbines at the university’s cogeneration power plant. Before the facility was built, the power plant used upwards of 450,000 gallons of potable water each day. — This is an excerpt of an unattributed article from the Hartford Business Journal. #connecticut #cooling #green #university #eco

“We’re trying to put together a green trailer,” he said. “Instead of going twice a week to the gas station, we are going once every two weeks.” A shift to renewable power, like Blundon’s, has been increasingly common for homes and businesses across the state. But harnessing the sun for work tools, instead of a grid-connected building, is a rare application. “Solar ticked all the boxes,” Blundon said. “Lower maintenance costs, greater reliability, reduced energy bills, less do

— “If you walk into your office and flip on your light switch, most people don’t know if it’s a dime or a dollar in cost,” Buda said. “We can give Ken a report and say, ‘last month, you used about $150 of energy in your office and these are things you can do to curtail that use.’” — Budderfly, which received its second U.S. patent last week, has hardware fitted into specific light switches and power outlets that communicate with cloud-based software. Management can actually s