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  • Claude Colp Joins Aegis Solar Energy as Engineering Services Director

    Will Head Aegis’ Massachusetts Project & Engineering Office BRANFORD, Conn., Oct. 11, 2011 – Aegis Solar Energy Inc., a solar-energy solutions provider serving the northeastern U.S., announced today that it hired Claude Colp as Director of Engineering Services and head of its Project & Engineering Office in Sudbury, MA. Mr. Colp, 31, came to Aegis Solar from Solar Design Associates, a renewable energy design firm in Harvard, Mass. There he was responsible for overseeing major ...

    Posted at October 11, 2011 | By : | Categories : News | 0 Comment

  • Aegis Solar Energy completes first Solar Power System at Southern CT State University

    50KW Rooftop Solar-Power Installation Will provide Renewable Energy to Brownell Hall BRANFORD, Conn., Oct. 03, 2011 – Aegis Solar Energy Inc., a developer, builder and operator of commercial and residential scale solar power systems, announced today that the large-scale, solar-panel array it designed for the roof of Brownell Hall, a dormitory on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) in New Haven, Conn., is complete and ready for operation. Locating a solar-panel array on ...

    Posted at October 3, 2011 | By : | Categories : News | 0 Comment

  • Cost of installing solar panels falls

    By Luther Turmelle, North Bureau Chief lturmelle@nhregister.com / Twitter: @lutherturmelle A collapse in the price of panels used to collect power from the sun’s rays is driving down the price of installing the systems at homes and businesses. The average pre-incentive cost of residential and commercial solar systems in the United States declined by 11 percent in the first half of 2011, according to a report recently released by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley ...

    Posted at September 23, 2011 | By : | Categories : News | 0 Comment

  • Colleges and Universites Retrofitting Solar Thermal Power to Save on Energy Costs and Education Students

    WEST HARTFORD, CT – Saint Joseph College has partnered with Aegis Electrical Systems of Branford, CT to install a substantial solar energy system that will benefit students in environmental studies programs, while at the same time reduce the College’s non-renewable energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The College’s Strategic Plan includes the goal of “implementing programs and policies that encourage environmental sustainability.” In support of this commitment, two systems are planned for The ...

    Posted at August 5, 2011 | By : | Categories : News | 0 Comment

  • Heating up: Demand on the rise for solar project funding

    By Luther Turmelle, North Bureau Chief For proponents of solar thermal power systems in Connecticut, which are typically used to provide hot water for homes, the best of times changed into the worst of times mighty fast. At the beginning of April, 75 percent of a $3.8 million cache of federal stimulus money that was set aside by Connecticut officials 18 months ago to provide incentives for installation of the solar thermal systems was still ...

    Posted at June 5, 2011 | By : | Categories : News | 0 Comment

  • Stacy Owen: Plugging into the Sun

    Forty new solar panels were recently installed on the MacMillan-Owen home thanks to homeowner Stacy Owen's research into the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund's solar rebate program. The solar-powered home will also send excess clean energy back to the grid for use by Stacy's neighbors. She wants to encourage other homeowners to look into the cost-effective, clean energy program. Photo by Pam Johnson/The Courier The ...

    Posted at June 3, 2010 | By : | Categories : News | 0 Comment

  • Let the Sun Shine

    East Lyme family goes solar East Lyme - One local family is the first in the region to take advantage of federal stimulus funds to install a solar thermal system to heat their home. Just a few weeks ago, Aegis-Solar Energy installed a solar thermal system at Bill and Kathleen Derry's home on Pennsylvania Avenue. The "green" system works by generating heat from sunlight and reduces fuel bills significantly. Though the cost of installing a ...

    Posted at January 14, 2010 | By : | Categories : News | 0 Comment

  • Essex Struts its Clean Energy Stuff

    By Melissa Pionzio Well this clean energy thing is really catching on! I heard it not only from the folks at the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund yesterday, during a dedication ceremony to unveil a 2-kilowatt solar photovoltaic (PV) system that has been installed on the rooftop of the Essex Recycling Center, but from the very guy who did the ...

    Posted at October 9, 2008 | By : | Categories : News | 0 Comment