City of Bridgeport Municipal Microgrid
In May of 2021, Scale acquired a distributed energy microgrid that powers three key municipal facilities in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Commissioned in 2018, the Bridgeport microgrid provides year-round clean energy to Bridgeport’s City Hall, Police Headquarters, and Eisenhower Senior Center. Scale will continue operating the system under a comprehensive 20-year Energy Services Agreement with the City.
The microgrid utilizes a combined heat and power (CHP) system to simultaneously produce electricity, heat, and chilled water, significantly improving energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The microgrid also includes multiple design redundancies that enable fail-safe operations in the event of extreme weather or other emergency blackout event, providing additional resilience for the City’s critical facilities.
Big Picture Impact
85k
MMBTU Per Year Energy Savings
100%
Resilience During Grid Outages
3
Mission-Critical Municipal Facilities
The Bridgeport Municipal Microgrid
Scale’s Capital Solutions team provides a range of flexible financing options for distributed energy projects. The acquisition of the Bridgeport Microgrid demonstrates its ability to provide owners and operators of assets a means to recycle their capital back into their businesses.
The initial financing of this system included a 10% Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and a $2.9 million grant from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). CT Green Bank and KeyBank provided the debt package and continue to support the project post-acquisition.
200-ton
Absorption Chiller
3 x 265 kW
CHP Generators
250 kW
Standby Generator
"This transaction highlights our integrated M&A, financing, asset management and operational capabilities in a way that sets us apart from our peers. We will build on this success and continue to commit capital to finance microgrids and distributed energy infrastructure more broadly.”
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