Mirror: Time Running Short for CT Fuel Cell Industry
In the last decade, fuel cells--those extremely efficient electro-chemical devices that make power from hydrogen and oxygen--have been seen as Connecticut's ticket to the alternative energy ball.
The state remains a hub of the fuel cell industry, but it is a glass half full and half empty.
Half full, it has created jobs and increased business despite an economic downturn that all but killed financing for multi-million-dollar fuel cell projects, even as improved technology has made them cheaper.
Half empty, gains have been small, with projects mainly overseas or in California. Connecticut's own fuel cell plans have languished, undermining a strategy to become home to fuel cell demonstration projects that would spur business.
State funding and incentives are nearly nonexistent and companies headquartered here say if they weren't already in the state, they would have no reason to come and expect other fuel cell manufacturers won't.
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