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Jewish
Community
Center of greater
New Haven
HEADQUARTERS: Woodbridge
CEO: Judy Diamondstein
FOUNDED: 1988
EMPLOYEES: 26
WEBSITE:
http://www.jccnh.org
DID YOU KNOW? Intel claims the
largest corporate solar carport
in the country. The chip maker
unveiled the 6.5-megawatt
array of canopies last month in
California.
CT's largest solar carport
By Matt Pilon
S
olar carports aren't unheard of in Connecticut, though they're a
much more common sight in hot, sunny states like Arizona.
But now, visitors to the Jewish Community Center of Greater New
Haven have the opportunity of parking under what builders say is the larg-
est solar carport in New England.
The 750-kilowatt canopy, developed by New York's Solaire Generation
in partnership with Bullrock Deutsche Eco Solar Ventures, is also the first
carport to be financed under the Connecticut Green Bank's C-Pace-secured
power purchase agreement structure.
As a result, JCC didn't have to put down any money upfront.
The carport, which went live over the summer, is expected to generate
half of the 1,800 megawatt hours used annually by the JCC's Beckerman/
Lender building.
"If electricity purchase rates continue to rise, the carports and solar pan-
els will significantly reduce our costs over their lifetime," Scott Cohen, JCC
of Greater New Haven's chief operating officer, said in a statement.
JCC has also recently installed more efficient lighting and a co-genera-
tion unit in Woodbridge.
The JCC of Greater New Haven's solar carport will cut in half the nonprofit's energy usage.
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