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- Solar deal expires; must bid again (3/24/14)
HOPKINTON — After months of delays, Hopkinton’s first solar energy project is ready to go before the Planning Board. Megawatt Energy Solutions, of Providence, will present its final site development plan at a hearing on April 2, even though there is currently no buyer for the power the project will generate
- National Grid to build electric cable for Block Island offshore wind farm (3/20/14)
National Grid has agreed to build the submarine transmission cable connecting the five-turbine wind farm planned by Deepwater Wind off Block Island to the mainland power grid, according to documents filed with state regulators.
- Years after they were proposed, R.I., Mass. wind farm projects yet to start spinning (3/15/14)
On a recent morning in Boston, Jim Gordon described what it has been like to suffer setback after setback in his quest to build the first offshore wind farm in America.
- Handful of developers attend first public session with officials working on Providence’s Route 195 redevelopment (3/10/14)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A handful of residential developers and engineers turned out Tuesday at the first public session with officials responsible for selling 19 acres of former highway land now available for development in the capital city.
- Chafee to establish advisory climate change council (2/20/14)
Governor Chafee is set to announce the establishment of a council that will advise him on climate change issues. At a news conference Friday at the West Warwick Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility, Chafee will announce an executive order that creates the Rhode Island Executive Climate Change Council
- National Grid submits proposal to take over construction of Deepwater transmission lines (3/20/14)
PROVIDENCE – National Grid has submitted a proposal to the R.I. Division of Public Utilities and Carriers to construct the transmission system for the Deepwater Wind Block Island Wind Farm, instead of purchasing the completed system from Deepwater Wind as in previous plans.
- Rhode Islanders increased their use of wood to heat their homes at fastest rate in nation (3/19/14)
Rhode Island saw the largest increase in homes using wood as the main source of heating among all states, with usage up more than 150 percent in 2012 compared with 2005, according to a federal government survey.
- National Grid project will route lines through northern R.I. (3/10/14)
PROVIDENCE – National Grid will begin work this month on the Rhode Island segments of the Interstate Reliability Project, a multimillion dollar effort to improve New England’s electricity transmission system.
- Final public hearing on proposed Block Island wind farm (2/27/14)
NARRAGANSETT (WPRI) – The Coastal Resources Management Council is holding its third and final public hearing Thursday on a proposed wind farm off the coast of Block Island
- Number of R.I. farms growing, bucking national trend (2/20/14)
PROVIDENCE — The number of farms in Rhode Island grew by 2 percent to 1,243 from 2007 to 2012 as the state also gained more farmland, according to preliminary findings released Thursday from a U.S. Department of Agriculture census that collected state-by-state data.