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Burlington, MA – September 22, 2023 – FirstLight Power, a leading clean power producer, developer, and energy storage company, today announced the recipients of over $59,000 in grant money, in the first year of the FirstLight Sustains program. FirstLight Sustains is a competitive grant program to improve the quality of life in the communities where FirstLight…
Read moreBURLINGTON, Mass. and MONTRÉAL, Québec – September 13, 2023 – FirstLight Power (FirstLight), a leading clean power producer, developer, and energy storage company, today announced that it has finalized an agreement to acquire Hydromega Services Inc. (Hydroméga), including ownership interest in five hydropower generating stations in Québec and five additional hydropower generating stations in Northeastern Ontario. In…
Read moreLake Zoar – Beginning on October 21, 2023, FirstLight will conduct a fall drawdown of Lake Zoar at the Stevenson Dam to conduct its maintenance and inspection activities. The normal summer operating range of the station is from 103’-100.5’, and the drawdown will target an elevation of 98.5’. The drawdown will lower lake levels to minimum…
Read moreMontague, MA – June 27, 2023 – Effective June 28, the U.S.G.S. S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center’s security gate in the Patch section of Turners Falls will be closed to vehicular access on evenings and weekends, with vehicular access being modified to 7:00 AM through 5:00 PM on weekdays. In addition, security will be…
Read moreThe expansion of FirstLight’s existing credit facility builds on longstanding lender partnerships with Royal Bank of Canada and The Toronto-Dominion Bank, and adds new lender Export Development Canada, deepening FirstLight’s relationships with global financial institutions to support its continued growth and development in North America BURLINGTON, Mass. – May 11, 2023 – FirstLight Power (FirstLight),…
Read moreFirstLight Sustains will support projects that promote community building and sustainability in communities across Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania Burlington, MA – April 27, 2023 – FirstLight Power, a leading clean power producer, developer, and energy storage company, today announced the launch of FirstLight Sustains, a competitive grant program to improve the quality of life in…
Read moreWith the addition of over 150 MW of capacity from eight hydroelectric facilities majority owned and managed by H2O Power in Northern Ontario, FirstLight continues its significant growth and diversification of the company’s clean energy portfolio BURLINGTON, Mass. and OSHAWA, Canada – April 11, 2023 – FirstLight Power, a leading clean power producer, developer, and…
Read moreFirstLight Power (FirstLight) today filed a Flows and Fish Passage Settlement Agreement (Agreement) with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) relative to the relicensing of the Turners Falls Hydroelectric Project1 and Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Project, located on the Connecticut River in Western Massachusetts. The Agreement follows a decade-long process involving dozens of scientific studies…
Read moreOn Thursday, March 9th, FirstLight Power received notice of an observed small oil sheen below the Turners Falls Dam. We immediately deployed our team to inspect the area and establish and implement solutions to address the issue, at all times in coordination with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP). The team onsite identified two…
Read moreNEW MILFORD, Conn. – January 23rd, 2023 – FirstLight, the owner and operator of the Rocky River pumped hydroelectric station, began the drawdown of Candlewood Lake, which includes Squantz Pond, on Friday, January 20th, 2023. The drawdown, executed in consultation with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,…
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