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November 5, 2019

Direct Energy parent acquires S. Windsor fuel cell plant

PHOTO | Contributed A Doosan fuel cell outside of Hartford's 777 Main apartment tower.
By Matt Pilon

A British multinational energy-services company says it’s acquired a 5-megawatt fuel cell installation that’s under construction in South Windsor.

Centrica disclosed this week that its New Jersey-based Centrica Business Solutions arm acquired the 515 John Fitch Boulevard project back in March from South Energy Investments LLC. The deal hadn’t previously been publicly announced.

The price was not disclosed.

Centrica said the fuel cell project, which has a 20-year contract to sell its output to Eversource, will be completed next year.

The plant is expected to produce $150,000 in local revenue per year, the Journal Inquirer reported last year.

The property on which the fuel cell is being built is just a few miles down the road from Doosan Fuel Cell America, which manufactured the plant.

Across the Connecticut River to the southwest, Centrica and its subsidiary, Direct Energy -- which is active in Connecticut’s retail energy supply market -- are also involved in a 20-megawatt installation that aims to power a proposed data center on a portion of the historic Stanley Works manufacturing campus in New Britain.

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