In Bridgeport, fuel cell developers use brownfields to spur growth

In Bridgeport, fuel cell developers use brownfields to spur growth

The long-abandoned site of a former plastics manufacturer in downtown Bridgeport is now producing enough low-carbon electricity to power more than 3,000 homes, a conversion that officials say could be a model for other post-industrial brownfield sites in Connecticut. Earlier this month, Dispatch Energy — a New York-based developer of distributed energy projects — announced that a 4-megawatt fuel cell facility located within the Bunnell Block, a …