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Fresh on the heels of signing a contract to build a 2.7 megawatt municipal solar project in Lewis County in north central New York state, Greenskies Renewable Energy has been contracted to build a 2.7 megawatt solar array in Erie County, in the western end of the state.

Trumbull schools are about to get a lot greener beginning next fall. Greenskies Renewable Energy, one of the nation’s top 10 solar developers, announced last week that it has signed an agreement to design and build rooftop solar arrays on five schools in town.

Middletown's Greenskies Renewable Energy, which was recently ranked in the top 10 most prolific solar developers in the country, said its combined installations have generated more than 100 million kilowatt hours of electricity as of this month.

A handful of Connecticut municipalities are pushing legislators to give them the go-ahead to participate in a green energy program that left them out.

A Connecticut company, Greenskies Renewable Energy, has been named as one of the top ten solar power developers in the U.S. by Solar Power World, a publication and website focused on the energy industry.

After decades of false starts, solar power in America is finally poised for its breakthrough moment. The price of solar panels has dropped by more than 80 percent since President Obama took office, and the industry is beginning to compete with coal and natural gas on economics alone.

The town is ramping up its efforts to use solar energy to help offset some of its biggest energy eaters. It started with the installation of solar panels at the end of last year at the former landfill—next up is the town pool.

Greenskies Renewable Energy installed more megawatts of solar panels in 2014 than any other New England-based company, according to a new ranking by Solar Power World.

Connecticut-based Greenskies Renewable Energy has announced it will build a 2.7 MW municipal solar array in Lewis County, N.Y., the company’s first municipal project in New York.

Erie County wants SolarCity and another developer to build two of the biggest solar arrays in the Buffalo Niagara region on vacant county-owned land near the Alden Correctional Facility and near the county’s wastewater-treatment plant in Angola.