Technology Showcase

The new Connecticut Science Center in Hartford features a $2 million exhibit featuring the science of clean energy and energy efficiency technology. Funded by CCEF and the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund, the 1,500-square-foot exhibit teaches visitors about clean energy technologies in a cutting-edge facility that also employs those clean and efficient energy technologies in its own operations.

The exhibit is one of several contained within the museum’s Energy City gallery – one designed to represent a sustainable city. Visitors to this gallery gain fundamental knowledge of energy; evaluate their own energy uses; and discover how a combination of clean energy and energy efficiency technologies is making changes in our lives today and establishing a more sustainable future.

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Goals of the Exhibit

Located on the upper-level concourse alongside the Climate Change Theatre and Connecticut River galleries, the clean energy exhibit will:
• Draw attention to the Science Center’s own clean energy features.
• Help visitors to understand renewable energy with hands-on applications.
• Show ways visitors may introduce clean energy into their own lives and communities.
• Highlight Connecticut’s role as a national leader in clean energy and energy efficiency efforts.

Connecticut Science Center website: www.ctsciencecenter.org.