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Connecticut’s home battery storage program, Energy Storage Solutions, just doubled its upfront incentive to help homeowners invest in backup power – here’s how it works. In exchange for installing battery storage for 10 years to help reduce demand from the electrical grid and provide home backup during power outages, Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority has increased the maximum residential upfront incentive to $16,000 from $7,500. The upfront residential incentive is calculated…

The researchers found a narrow observation window after understory plants started to green up but before trees leaf out in the spring. Sentinel-2 satellite images were compared with field observations of test plots in the UConn Forest to show patches of barberry (outlined in black) before mapping all of Connecticut’s understory species. Credit: University of Connecticut Distinguishing separate plant species from one another is…

Kawasaki M8 Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) electric trains began to run on Connecticut’s Shore Line East this week. New electric trains in Connecticut Shore Line East provides daily service from New Haven to New London. It has connecting service to New York City through Metro-North’s New Haven Line, which has had M8 EMU trains for more than a decade. The electric M8s are a substantial improvement over the older diesel-powered train sets. They emit no carbon emissions and include additional amenities such as…