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What’s Up With Ansonia’s East Main Street Solar Panels?

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A photo of the E. Main Street parking lot from November 2024.

ANSONIAIf you’ve driven by the public parking lot on E. Main Street, you may have noticed it got a facelift recently.

Contractors were onsite starting in October to install about 850 solar panels, which now hang over most of the parking spots in the lot. 

The city paid about $2.38 million for those panels – but city officials say it’s an investment that will make money in the long run.

Under an agreement between the city and the company Johnson Controls International (JCI), the solar panels will feed power back into the grid. Then, the city will receive a credit based on the amount of power generated.

Budget director Kurt Miller said those credits will generate about $120,000 per year for the city. He said most of the $2.38 million construction cost will be offset by federal tax credits, worth $1.9 million.

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Kinneytown Dam Removal Gets Financial Boost From State

Naugatuck Valley Council Of Governments

Kinneytown Dam.

SEYMOURA project to tear down the defunct Kinneytown Dam – which obstructs migratory fish from accessing upstream habitats on the Naugatuck River – is set to receive a $25 million boost from the state.

A bill passed by the state House and Senate June 4 directs the state bond commission to grant that money toward the project.

Design is only just getting started, so a lot can change, but our working timeline is for the dam removal to begin in 2027,” said Aaron Budris, environmental planning director for the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments. NVCOG is overseeing the project in partnership with Save the Sound, a New Haven-based nonprofit which pursues environmental justice efforts.

Budris said removing the dam is essential to the health of the river, its habitats, and the general public.

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A campaign sign for Harry Danley, Jr.'s 2023 mayoral campaign. Danley was arrested and charged with first-degree larceny June 4.

Ansonia Elder Fraud Arrestee Disputes Charges Against Him

ANSONIAA city resident accused of stealing about $25,000 from an elderly city resident apologized – but said he’s innocent of the charges brought against him.

Harry Danley, Jr., a city public works employee who was arrested and charged with first-degree larceny June 4, told The Valley Indy that the accusations against him are false.

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What’s Up With Ansonia’s East Main Street Solar Panels?

City of Ansonia/Facebook

A photo of the E. Main Street parking lot from November 2024.

ANSONIAIf you’ve driven by the public parking lot on E. Main Street, you may have noticed it got a facelift recently.

Contractors were onsite starting in October to install about 850 solar panels, which now hang over most of the parking spots in the lot. 

The city paid about $2.38 million for those panels – but city officials say it’s an investment that will make money in the long run.

Under an agreement between the city and the company Johnson Controls International (JCI), the solar panels will feed power back into the grid. Then, the city will receive a credit based on the amount of power generated.

Budget director Kurt Miller said those credits will generate about $120,000 per year for the city. He said most of the $2.38 million construction cost will be offset by federal tax credits, worth $1.9 million.

Continue reading ‘What’s Up With Ansonia’s East Main Street Solar Panels?’

Kinneytown Dam Removal Gets Financial Boost From State

Naugatuck Valley Council Of Governments

Kinneytown Dam.

SEYMOURA project to tear down the defunct Kinneytown Dam – which obstructs migratory fish from accessing upstream habitats on the Naugatuck River – is set to receive a $25 million boost from the state.

A bill passed by the state House and Senate June 4 directs the state bond commission to grant that money toward the project.

Design is only just getting started, so a lot can change, but our working timeline is for the dam removal to begin in 2027,” said Aaron Budris, environmental planning director for the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments. NVCOG is overseeing the project in partnership with Save the Sound, a New Haven-based nonprofit which pursues environmental justice efforts.

Budris said removing the dam is essential to the health of the river, its habitats, and the general public.

Continue reading ‘Kinneytown Dam Removal Gets Financial Boost From State’

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