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Events/Meetings:
Electric Vehicle Ride-n-Drive
Saturday & Sunday, Dec. 10 & 11,
10:00am-2:00pm
Quirk Chevrolet
444 Quincy Avenue
Braintree, MA 02184
Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
Sunday-Thursday
Jan. 8-12
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Washington, D.C.
Energy Efficiency and Resource Management Council
Thursday, Dec. 8,
3:30pm
1 Capitol Hill
Second Floor
Conference Room B
Providence, RI 02908
Distributed Generation Board
Monday, Jan. 23,
4:00pm
1 Capitol Hill
Second Floor
Conference Room A
Providence, RI 02908
RI Farm Energy Workshop
Thursday, Jan. 26
1:00pm-3:00pm
West Greenwich Public Library
274 Victory Highway
West Greenwich, RI
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The Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources (OER) has approved $300,000 in enhanced incentives to support the installation of LED streetlights and control technologies in the City of Providence. This project will reduce Providence's energy consumption and costs, and help shrink the community's carbon footprint.
These enhanced incentives are being offered in addition to any applicable National Grid-administered incentives and represent a unique project cost savings opportunity for first-mover communities. Conversions from traditional street lights to more efficient LEDs have the potential to reduce energy consumption and costs by approximately 40 to 60 percent.
"We are pleased to offer this investment so that our cities and towns can more easily reduce their carbon footprints and save on energy costs," said state Energy Commissioner Carol Grant. "Rhode Island is a national leader in energy efficiency, and we want to continue to build on those successful efforts and lead by example."
For more information about the program contact George Sfinarolakis at at OER at (401) 574-9101 or [email protected].
On November 3, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) designated I-95 in Rhode Island as one of 48 nationally-recognized electric vehicle charging corridors. The designation is part of an ongoing effort by the FHWA to establish a national network of alternative fueling and charging infrastructure along interstate highways. This first round of designations includes corridors spanning across 35 states plus the District of Columbia. Rhode Island was designated as a "signage-ready" state, meaning the state can use signage developed by FHWA that identifies electric vehicle charging stations and other alternative fuels along the highway similar to signage that already exists to alert drivers to gas stations, food and lodging. Charging stations either already in place or planned will be located within every 50 miles.
For additional information on the corridor nominations, please visit the FHWA website.
For a listing of all electric vehicle charging stations within Rhode Island, please click here.
The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission (PUC) opened Docket 4600 "Investigation Into Issues Related to the Changing Electric Distribution System" earlier this year. This docket has begun a conversation on how energy and utility programs can be better coordinated to deliver the best value for Rhode Islanders.
Under the facilitation of Raab Associates, docket participants began engaging in monthly meetings starting in September to discuss issues such as the cost-effectiveness screening of energy programs and the design of electric rates.
The docket is intended to inform future docket proceedings and policy conversations around Rhode Island's evolving electric grid. As growing numbers of customers adopt new technologies like energy efficiency, renewable energy, and electric vehicles, Rhode Island's electric grid is becoming more complex. This docket is providing Rhode Island energy stakeholders and policymakers an opportunity to consider these grid complexities and advance the state's leadership in clean energy deployment and market development. By shifting our utility and energy regulatory model, Rhode Island aims to proactively adapt to the energy system of the future.
The SunShot Prize: Solar in Your Community Challenge, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative and administered by The State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute, is a prize competition that aims to expand solar electricity access to all Americans, especially underserved segments such as low- and moderate-income (LMI) households state, local, and tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations.
By offering $5 million in cash prizes and technical assistance over 18 months, the Challenge supports teams across the country to develop projects or programs that expand solar access to underserved groups, while proving that these business models can be widely replicated and adopted by similar groups. The application deadline is March 17, 2017.
National Grid Distributed Energy Resources Solicitation
National Grid is conducting a market solicitation for distributed energy resources (DER) that could contribute to reducing peak load in the areas of Tiverton and Little Compton, Rhode Island. The request seeks to identify market-based DER proposals that, if implemented, could cost effectively act as a non-wires alternatives to support National Grid's DemandLink pilot.
Please visit
OER's website to learn more about the DemandLink pilot. To learn more about National Grid's solicitation or to participate, please contact Eliza Davis, Category Manager, National Grid, at
[email protected] or 781-907-1596.
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The Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources (OER) and the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) have partnered to develop rooftop solar installations on Capitol Hill. Three state government buildings - the Powers building, the Department of Transportation (DOT) building and the Cannon building - will have solar arrays installed in 2017. All three government buildings have new roofs which simplify solar construction and maintenance.
This project was awarded in November 2016 to Newport Renewables via a competitive solicitation process through the State's Division of Purchases. According to the vendor's timeline, construction is expected to start in the next two months. The total capacity of the installations is 267.84 kW and will produce about 300,000 kWh annually. This equates to the energy use of approximately 43 households.
This project was initiated under the State's Lead By Example Initiative. To learn more about this initiative please visit OER's website.
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