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Energy City

Solar panels. Wind turbines. Hydropower. Fuel cells. Biomass products. These are just a few of the alternative energy technologies you can try out in this exhibit. Play "energy watt" pinball. Calculate your personal carbon footprint. Add up the savings of certain "smart energy" behaviors. And tour virtual town settings to measure the effect of our "energy" uses and how they impact the triple bottom line of people, planet and profits.

Climate Change Theater

It's not often you get schooled about the effects of global warming by a sheep. But who better to give us a perspective on what's happening with the earth's environment than an animal? Our 30-seat, 4D object theater provides a sensory extravaganza, complete with booming thunderstorm and actual rainy mist (that's the fourth dimension), as our farmyard narrator dishes out a 20-minute presentation that's anything but woolly.

Renewable City

Throughout the Energy City Gallery we've created hands-on interactive exhibits arranged in the context of an imaginary city featuring home, school, factory and office settings that are both familiar and intriguing. Open doors, pull knobs, push buttons and pick up objects to learn how much energy was used to make them. You'll even gauge the results of the alternative energy technologies being used by the Science Center itself.

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Energy City
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Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund & Connecticut Clean Energy Fund

The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund offers financial incentives and educational programs to encourage homeowners, companies, municipalities, and other institutions to support renewable energy and lead the state to a brighter energy future.

  • For more information, visit the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund website.
  • For more information about the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities program click here.

The Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund offers financial incentives, technical assistance and educational programs designed to make it easy for residents, businesses and municipalities to get in the habit of using energy more efficiently - to save money, energy and the environment. For more information, visit the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund website at www.ctenergyinfo.com.

eesmarts

eesmarts is an energy efficiency and clean, renewable energy learning initiative of the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund. Administered by Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating, the vision of eesmarts is to facilitate students' understanding of the science, math and technology related to clean, renewable energy and electricity in order to create an energy-efficient ethic among all school-age students in Connecticut. All schools in Connecticut are eligible for this free one-of-a-kind program.

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Energy City has been developed with the support of the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund and The Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund.

new newEnergy City has been funded by the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund and the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund. Technical support has been provided by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory.

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