Pomfret-based Loos & Co. is the first business to join a new economic development initiative in northeastern Connecticut known as the Quiet Corner Innovation Cluster (QCIC), officials announced.
Berlin, Farmington, Newington, Rocky Hill, Vernon and Windsor are among a municipal baker's dozen awarded $5 million in state grants to promote job-growth and development within their borders.
Berlin electric utility Connecticut Light & Power will have a helicopter flying over the eastern portion of the state intermittently between August and December to install a transmission line.
The state's Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority has selected Ross Solar Group of Rocky Hill to build residential photovoltaic systems in four towns under the Solarize Connecticut program.
The state program Solarize Connecticut has expanded to 11 new towns after installing 3 megawatts of residential renewable energy in nine previous towns.
Connecticut awarded $11.9 million in grants to provide or ugrade affordable housing and boot-strap economic development in 26 communities, authorities say.
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