Good news for Connecticut homeowners who want to install solar panels: as of July 19, the state’s solar lease program is accepting applications again. As of December 31, 2009,  Connecticut’s solar lease program was suspended because the rate at which applications were being received would have caused funding for the program to run dry in a [...]

Thanks to federal stimulus money, the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) will soon launch a rebate program for solar thermal — or solar hot water — energy systems. By covering 20 percent of associated costs, the state aims to support the installation of 600 residential solar thermal systems and 100 commercial solar thermal systems. The [...]

This past December, we reported that funding for Connecticut’s solar rebate program had run dry. Six months later, the program is back by popular demand. The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund recently announced the re-opening of the Small Solar Rebate Program, effective July 1, 2009: The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) today announced that it has [...]

As reported by Jan Ellen Spiegel of the New York Times, Connecticut’s touted solar rebate program, which experts have pointed to as exemplary, may not be so perfect after all. Six months into its current two-year budget cycle, it is nearly out of cash, leaving homeowners, businesses, and nonprofit and governmental organizations that want to [...]