Connecticut Clean Energy Trail Unveiled

ROCKY HILL — The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) unveiled its Connecticut Clean Energy Trail recently during a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the installation of a solar energy system at Talcott Mountain Science Center in Avon. The trail highlights commercial clean energy installations — such as fuel cells and solar energy systems — located throughout the state and is accessible to the public at CleanEnergyTrail.com.

A variety of information about each clean energy installation on the trail is available online, including installation size, savings in grid power and/or pollution avoidance equivalencies, clean energy technology details, live system energy data (for some), and a contact name for additional information. If the online visitors would like to visit a site in person, tours may be arranged at some of the sites.

“In the spirit of promoting clean energy and emissions reductions, we have created a trail of clean energy sites that is conveniently at the fingertips of Connecticut residents and accessible from their homes — an online trail,” said Lise Dondy, president of CCEF. “The trail will serve as an excellent educational resource for children and their parents and should help to demonstrate that clean energy is real. It’s here, and it’s working for Connecticut.”

Connecticut is a leader in developing the technologies needed to make clean, renewable energy widely available and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. CCEF has helped to support the development of many of these technologies and has supported or committed to supporting the installation of more than 140 clean energy systems statewide at both commercial and residential sites.

CCEF was created by the Connecticut General Assembly and is administered by Connecticut Innovations, a quasi-public organization. CCEF promotes the development and commercialization of clean energy technologies; the creation of clean energy supply; and the demand for electricity from clean, renewable sources in Connecticut in order to strengthen Connecticut’s economy, protect community health, improve the environment, and promote a secure energy supply for the state. CCEF’s funding comes from a surcharge on electric ratepayers’ utility bills.