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 matter of months. AFC First Financial, the interim lender for the leasing program, has now caught up on existing applications. That led to the July, 15, decision by the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) Board of Directors to reinstate the program for a limited time.
See announcement from CCEF, the body that administers all the state’s solar incentive programs.
Finally, in related news, a solar installation partly funded by another CCEF program — the On-Site Renewable Distributed Generation Program — was just completed today at Brewer Pilots Point Marina in Westbrook, CT.
To complete the 8,500-square-foot solar photovoltaic (PV) installation, the CCEF pitched in with a $184,968 grant. According to Trade Only, the On-Site Renewable Distributed Generation Program funds projects at Connecticut businesses in order to “reduce the load on the state’s electricity grid, prevent harmful emissions by offsetting electricity produced from fossil fuels and spur investment in small businesses.”
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