Authority Approves

126 Solar Energy Projects

ROCKY HILL (AP) — A Connecticut program intended to promote alternative energy says it has approved 126 requests to install solar rooftop systems.

Bryan Garcia, president of the Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority, said the program will spend about $1.4 million to build the systems and will draw another $1.4 million in private funding.

More than one-third of the 70 approved installation companies in the Connecticut program have been involved in submitting initial applications for the solar installations.

State energy legislation enacted last year calls for installation of at least 30 megawatts of new residential photovoltaic systems by 2022. The finance and investment authority authorized $7.5 million initially.

The applications approved recently will produce more than 800 kilowatts of residential solar capacity.