CT seeks new contracts for nuclear power, renewables

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said Friday that it would begin seeking new contracts for carbon-free electricity from large power generators, including the Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford.

“There’s quite a bit of uncertainty around what financing might look like,” for renewable energy projects, said Kate McAuliffe, a senior policy advocate at the Acadia Center, a nonprofit research and advocacy group focused on clean energy in the Northeast.

“I think that makes it even more imperative for the state to move quickly on this,” she added. “Anything that [DEEP] can do to expedite the process, whether that’s in permitting or approvals, to make sure that other mature projects can go online, that’ll be really important. And then the results that we see in response to this will be pretty illustrative of what the industry is going to look like.”

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