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Connecticut will receive $15.4 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to expand its energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
The funding from the U.S. Department of Energy is about half of the state’s $38 million in stimulus funds for its State Energy Plan submitted to the federal government last month.
About $8 million will go to expanding fuel cell initiatives through the state Clean Energy fund, with the goal of completing 14 more projects. A rebate program for residential and commercial geothermal systems will receive $5 million. Two plans to support solar thermal and photovoltaic installations will receive $7 million.
Utilities will also benefit from the stimulus dollars, which will be used to expand energy audit services and efficiency programs to residential and business customers.
“I am tremendously pleased that federal energy officials have endorsed our energy goals. To develop the economy of the future we must have strong foundation that includes renewable and alternative energy sources and clean technology and a highly skilled work force that will complement it all,” Gov. M. Jodi Rell said in a statement. “Fortunately, Connecticut has been ahead of the national curve on so many of those fronts. These funds will help us continue that momentum.”
The state energy plan is expected to generate energy savings of 10 million British thermal units, a measure of energy, for every $1,000 spent.
Earlier this month, Rell announced that the state has filed applications for $18.9 million worth of federal stimulus dollars aimed at upgrading state-owned transit buses. And in a related award, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection has already applied for, and expects to receive, $1.73 million for the reduction of diesel emissions, which will include the retrofit of the emissions systems of state-owned vehicles.
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