Connecticut Green Bank Presents 2020 Awards
"Connecticut's clean energy workforce has been strong and growing since 2015, until the pandemic caused a major setback. While the path to a full recovery will be long, our contractors are safely back to work - creating jobs, combatting climate change, and reducing energy burdens for families and building owners across the state. With this backdrop, we are particularly excited to recognize these projects and contractors that highlight the diverse ways our programs made a difference in our communities in 2020," said Bryan Garcia, President and CEO of the Green Bank. "From boutique inns, churches, and community centers, to our homes and neighborhoods, clean energy is powering our daily lives and helping us prosper. In the face of a challenging year, these leaders demonstrate that we can create a thriving future in Connecticut."
PACEsetter Awards Recipients
The Connecticut Green Bank's PACEsetter Awards acknowledge contractors, building owners and other stakeholders who are advancing the green energy movement through C-PACE, and whose leadership establishes a "pace" for others in their field to follow. The award winners are a driving force behind the success of the Green Bank's Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) program, which has surpassed 330 closed loans and $184 million in total close project financing that are estimated to save $295 million in energy costs. These are the sixth annual PACEsetter Awards.
For 2020, the Green Bank is recognizing 17 Smart-E Loan Top Performers. In 2020, the Top Performers helped over 250 families across Connecticut make home energy improvements - allowing them to save money, reduce their carbon footprint, and live more comfortably in their homes. The Smart-E Loan offers homeowners no money down, low-interest financing for more than 40 qualifying projects that reduce energy use and lower utility costs. Since 2013, the Smart-E loan has enabled more than 4,000 families to make improvements with a projected lifetime energy cost savings over $70 million.
In partnership with nine participating local lenders, the Top Performers' projects surpassed $4 million in closed Smart-E Loans. Financed projects included insulation and window upgrades, high efficiency heating and cooling solutions, rooftop solar PV, health and safety improvements, and more.
The Smart-E Loan Top Performers were chosen based on criteria including more than just closed loans. These contractors worked hard to integrate the Smart-E loan into their training and marketing, while providing high-level customer service. Despite the challenges created by the pandemic, these contractors were able to continue to increase access to clean energy solutions for homeowners.
The 2020 Top Performers (in alphabetical order; * denotes 2019 Top Performer recognition):
· Absolute Air Services LLC* (Middletown)
· EcoSmart Home Services* (Berlin)
· Energy Unlimited, LLC (Bolton)
· Glasco Heating & Air Conditioning Inc* (South Windsor)
· Highland Window Co. (West Hartford)
· Home Comfort Heating and Cooling Solutions, LLC* (East Haven)
· Home Comfort Practice* (Stratford)
· Homestead Fuel and Energy Solutions (Ellington)
· King Energy, LLC (Willington)
· Link Mechanical Services Inc* (New Britain)
· Nutmeg Mechanical Services Inc* (Manchester)
· R&W Heating Energy Solutions LLC* (Salem)
· Ralph Mann & Sons Inc. (Ansonia)
· Ryan F. Murphy Heating & Cooling LLC* (New Milford)
· SolvIt Home Services* (Plainville)
· Viglione Heating & Cooling Inc* (East Haven)