Barrett Outdoor Communications
As of December of 2005, with a matching grant from the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, we invested over $75,000 in a 16 KW Solar Voltaic system. More about Barrett's solar panel array and other commitments to envirnmental stewardship
Bigelow Tea
Bigelow Tea, with a grant from The Ct Clean Energy Fund will purchase solar panels that will be installed at the company’s offices in Fairfield. More about bigelow's green efforts
Dow
Providing humanity with a sustainable energy supply while addressing climate change is the most urgent environmental issue our society faces More about Dow's commitments
Gloria Spire Solar, LLC
GloriaSpire is afull-service provider of solar electricity solutions for commercial,
government, and utility customers. A joint venture company formed by two industry
leaders – solar pioneer Spire Corporation and module maker Gloria Solar Co., Ltd. – our
mission is to make solar systems more accessible, reliable, and affordable. More about Gloria Spire.
Lee Company Installs Solar Power System
The Lee Company, a maker of MicroHydraulics, has installed 1,760 photovoltaic panels on the roof of its Westbrook, Connecticut manufacturing facility. The 308-kilowatt solar electric system is one of the largest in New England, according to the company. To find out more about the Lee Company's solar panels, here's an article from EnvironmentalLeader.
Reflexite Corporation
Reflexite’s Management of Light strategy applies optical engineering, polymer processing and microreplication to make firefighters, construction workers, marine equipment and motorists safer by using Reflexite’s high-tech reflective products. Reflexite also creates new and differentiated products for global optics markets. Now this Avon-based
company has entered the solar energy field with engineered products that help make solar cells more efficient at capturing the energy of the sun.
Concentrating Photovoltaic (CPV) systems can use Fresnel lenses designed and produced by Reflexite to concentrate sunlight by as much as 500X onto a specialized multi-junction solar cell. The lens designs are optimized for the specific systems to ensure they achieve the highest possible efficiencies. This helps make the systems more cost effective, especially in grid-tied energy applications. CPV systems with Reflexite lenses are already installed in Spain. Future plans include installations in the US, Canada, South Korea, France and Italy.
For general information, please visit us on-line at www.Reflexite.com.
For solar optics inquiries, please contact:
Reflexite Optical Solutions Business
120 Darling Drive, Avon CT 06001
Attn: Victor Grin
Tel 860-676-7100Victor.grin@reflexite.com
Soltage, Inc.
Soltage, Inc. is a full service renewable energy provider, providing affordable solar electricity to clients across the US. At no cost to the client, Soltage finances, installs, owns and operates large solar power systems on the roofs and adjacent land of commercial, industrial, not for profit, and government clients. Soltage supplies clients with on-site generated electricity at a cost that is below current retail rates and stabilized out into the future.
Soltage recently opened an office in Hartford, CT to serve the Connecticut markets and is currently developing numerous solar power systems within the state. Soltage solar power systems are ideal for clients with open roofs or land greater than 15,000 square feet in size, less than four stories in height, and high peak energy demand. Through a Soltage electricity services agreement, Connecticut clients save from day one and can save millions over the course of a 20 year relationship. For more information please write info@soltage.com or call (860) 819-3786.
Staples
Green Power - Staples recently unveiled a 433-kilowatt DC commercial solar power system, the largest in New England, at its Northeast distribution center in Killingly, Conn. The solar power system has the capacity to produce enough energy to cleanly power 14 percent of the distribution center or 36 homes per year and will reduce annual carbon emissions equivalent to the average car driving 420,000 miles. Staples is investing in solar power and other forms of renewable energy to help reduce its U.S. carbon emissions by seven percent by 2010 on an absolute basis, starting from a base year of 2001.For more information on Staples' environmental initiatives, please visit More information on Staples' environmental initiatives
Thule
Thule, Inc. has announced it will be installing a 318-kilowatt (kW) DC solar photovoltaic (PV) system at its production facility in Seymour, which is also the U.S. headquarters.
Thule, the leading US manufacturer of transportation accessories has received a $1.3 million grant from The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) to help fund the project at its Seymour facility. To read more about the project, visit CCEF’s newsroom.
Wal-Mart Stores
At Wal-Mart, we know that being an efficient and profitable business and being a good steward of the environment are goals that can work together. Our environmental goals at Wal-Mart are simple and straightforward: To be supplied 100 percent by renewable energy; to create zero waste; and to sell products that sustain our resources and our environment. Using, encouraging and investing in renewable energy is good for the environment and good for business. Wal-Mart is stretching a kilowatt of electricity twice as far, and making a gallon of diesel fuel take our trucks twice the distance. We plan to make our stores 30 percent more efficient by 2012. Increasing our energy efficiency reduces dependence on oil, lowers greenhouse gas emissions and saves money. This change will also help us in our goal to restore balance to climate systems and save our customers money. Renewable Energy More about Wal-Mart's effort