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[doz180]

There is a proposal to bring the world's largest fuel cell power plants to Connecticut.

Elemental Power Group, LLC, a New York-based renewable energy development company, announced that it has proposed two projects for approval to the state of Connecticut through its Project 100 renewable energy RfP. The two projects, one in Bridgeport, CT and one in Danbury, CT, if approved by the state, will be the largest fuel cell generation projects in the world, each totaling approximately 30 megawatts of ultra-clean electrical generation.

“Fuel Cells provide extremely clean, reliable 24/7 electricity. Projects such as our Bridgeport and Danbury facilities are just the beginning of a strategy to supplement our nation’s renewable portfolio of hydro, wind, solar, biomass and geothermal sources with a highly-efficient urban renewable energy resource,” said Robert Babcock, President of Elemental Power Group (“EPG).

Bridgeport has a ton of unused industrial buildings, this could be the start of something good. A good way to transform some of those old buildings.

The Bridgeport facility is designed to repurpose and refurbish an old industrial structure that is sitting, unused, in the city’s heart. The Danbury facility will be constructed on an abandoned lot in that city’s aged industrial district approximately one mile from the headquarters of the technology provider, FuelCell Energy, Inc. Both facilities will increase the local tax base, provide added electrical supply in areas in which it is needed, and help to transform areas that have been hard hit by the loss of their industrial base with high-tech, environmentally friendly facilities.

www.poweronline.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=%7B177A4FC3-E2B4-4BF7-AE04-768486779E35%7D&VNETCOOKIE=NO

[drc72]

I hope this translates into lower prices for electricity.

[urbanaturalist]

Sounds really high tech and clean.  Great way to make use of unused industrial space in urban areas.  Hope this fuel cell power plant gives those coal and nuclear power plants a run for their money.

[JayHass]

drc72, on Jan 23 2007, 04:54 PM, said:

I hope this translates into lower prices for electricity.

That's been the problem all along...a deregulated industry that is unfriendly toward generation companies.  We have no major power generators in state, so everyone is simply brokering deals for power so prices are high.

If we get more generation plants in state like this, we can see the competition an open market brings and ultimately lower prices.

Lets hope this is the beginning of a good thing.

[fivedayrental]

JayHass, on Mar 11 2007, 08:21 AM, said:

That's been the problem all along...a deregulated industry that is unfriendly toward generation companies.  We have no major power generators in state, so everyone is simply brokering deals for power so prices are high.

If we get more generation plants in state like this, we can see the competition an open market brings and ultimately lower prices.

Lets hope this is the beginning of a good thing.

The article about this finally appeared in the danbury newstimes today.

[JimSawhill]

fivedayrental, on Mar 28 2007, 06:41 PM, said:

The article about this finally appeared in the danbury newstimes today.

fiveday:

     Got a link? I'd like to read it!!

JimS

[Lowerdeck]

It's not on the free archives, not surprisingly.

It's the News-Times, enough said.

[drc72]

JayHass, on Mar 11 2007, 08:21 AM, said:

That's been the problem all along...a deregulated industry that is unfriendly toward generation companies.  We have no major power generators in state, so everyone is simply brokering deals for power so prices are high.

If we get more generation plants in state like this, we can see the competition an open market brings and ultimately lower prices.

Lets hope this is the beginning of a good thing.

I totally concur..... Let's hope the State gets on the ball with this.

[fivedayrental]

drc72, on Apr 2 2007, 08:40 PM, said:

I totally concur..... Let's hope the State gets on the ball with this.

The project is starting to come along in Danbury. I was out driving on Tuesday and got caught behind a huge semi (with wide load cars) hauling some price big of equipment to or from the proposed site.

[Lowerdeck]

Where abouts in Danbury is this?  I assume somewhere in the southern side of town off Triangle.

[fivedayrental]

Lowerdeck, on Jul 18 2007, 11:28 PM, said:

Where abouts in Danbury is this?  I assume somewhere in the southern side of town off Triangle.

Yup, right on triangle street. They own a 3 acre parcel where it is going in.