DEEP - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

SCEF - Shared Clean Energy Facility

Written comments can be submitted to DEEP.EnergyBureau@ct.gov by August 24

PURA - Public Utilities Regulatory Authority

Acronyms are evil. Avoid them if possible. 🤓

It should be noted that Fuel Cells reduce particulate pollution by over 99% compared to natural gas co-gen or other combustion based generation which is far preferable in terms of community impact.

Fuel cells have many positive features. But green hydrogen was an “emerging technology” 20 years ago. For the foreseeable future, fuel cells will run on natural gas.

Link to the tool in the slides: https://ctdeep.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=d04ec429d0a4477b9526689dc7809ffe

https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Environmental-Justice/Environmental-Justice-Communities

STEPS - Sustainable, Transparent, and Efficient Process for Solar development

EJ - environmental justice

Not all of New Haven is considered an "environmental justice community"

only parts of it

which does not make sense when ALL of East Haven and Stratford ARE considered EJ communities under state law

the definition of "EJ community" is deeply flawed

and hopefully CEEJAC will make recommendations to change it considerably

CEEJAC - Connecticut Equity and Environmental Justice Advisory Counsel

How many SCEF projects have been sited so far?

Kevin McCarthy and Aaron Goode, thank you - DEEP's Environmental Justice Program is presently developing a mapping tool. We will take into considerations your comments. Doris Johnson

Thank you Doris!

Bruce - Currently the subscribers who benefit from a SCEF project are not geographically linked to the location of a facility.

Service territory means whether the electric company is Eversource or United Illuminating

To follow up on the question about whether a municipality can participate in the program, a municipality can participate as long as they meet the program requirements. We have seen municipalities partner with renewable energy developers to develop an application

Jean - to answer your question, 1 SCEF project has been built so far in Bloomfield as part of the SCEF pilot project. Since then, 9 SCEF projects were selected in year 1, 8 projects in year 2, and 8 more projects in year 3. Those projects are all in various stages of completion.

Municipality hosting VNM 2MW will get more benefit than hsoting SCEF

VNM - virtual net metering

Great point, Thomas.

Thank you all for organizing this workshop. Unfortunately late summer is a difficult time to have broader participation. we in the New Haven area look forward to additional opportunities to participate.

Thank you all. We look forward to ongoing discussions of SCEF.

Thank you!

Thank you.

Written comments can be submitted to DEEP.EnergyBureau@ct.gov by August 24