Breakthrough Technologies Institute - Fuel Cells 2000

Storrs, CT 06269-5233
Phone: (860) 486-4270
Fax: (860) 486-8378
E-mail: reifsnider@engr.uconn.edu
Web: www.ctfuelcell.uconn.edu
Mohegan Nation Fuel Cell Education Program
www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/information/pdf/mohegan-tribe-of-ct.pdf
The Mohegan Nation‘s Fuel Cell Education Program was designed around three
components:
• Installation and operation of at least two 200-kW fuel cells at the Mohegan
Sun Casino in 2002;
• Purchase of carbon offsets to mitigate, for a period of 25 years, the carbon
dioxide emissions associated with the operation of the fuel cells; and.
• Development of an educational program to share the lessons of this new
technology with members of the Mohegan Tribe, other tribes and the general
public.
The fuel cell team implementing the program is comprised of state and federal
government agencies (Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and U.S.
EPA), tribal government departments (Planning, Development, Financial and Legal, and
the Utility Authority), Mohegan Sun Engineering Department, energy and engineering
consulting firms, universities and suppliers.
Contact:
Dr. Norman Richards
Administrator of the Mohegan Environmental Protection Department
Phone: (860) 862-6112
Web: www.mohegan.nsn.us
6. RD&D SUPPORT
Connecticut Clean Energy Fund
www.ctcleanenergy.com
The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) invests in enterprises and other initiatives
that promote and develop sustainable markets for energy from clean energy sources.
The fund focuses primarily on breakthrough developments in the core technology areas
of fuel cells, solar energy, wind, landfill gas, biomass conversion, ocean thermal energy,
wave or tidal energy, and emerging non-fossil technologies. CCEF funding is acquired
by a charge assessed to electric customers.
CCEF’s Fuel Cell Initiative has invested in technology, demonstration sites, deployment,
as well as establishment of the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center at the University of
Connecticut. $37.5 million was committed to the Fuel Cell Initiative over a 5-year period
ending in 2005.
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