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Planning committee updates energy contract, pins schedule to $7 million in school construction grants
Summary
District staff updated the planning committee on an expiring electricity supply rate (10.35¢/kWh), plans to add solar at new Norton and Barnum schools and two proposed fuel cells, and said progress hinges on obtaining roughly $7 million in school construction grant support and possible special legislation to allow TELP financing.
Vin Massiana told the Cheshire School District planning committee that the district’s electricity supply contract runs through October and is currently locked at 10.35¢ per kilowatt hour, and that consultants have been asked to prepare bids ahead of the expiration.
“We have an electricity supply rate that runs through October. We’re locked in our supply rate at 10.35¢ per kilowatt hour,” Massiana said. He said staff and consultants are preparing procurement options while accounting for changing district load from new buildings and…
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