GREEN DEVELOPMENT LLC plans to employ about 500 workers both directly and through subcontractors to construct solar panel farms in Exeter and North Smithfield. The panels would be similar to the ones shown above. / PBN FILE PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD
NORTH KINGSTOWN – A North Kingstown company developing clean energy projects plans to create roughly 500 jobs, with hiring starting next year, for two solar panel construction projects in Rhode Island. About 100 of the jobs will be permanent, while the rest will be temporary construction jobs, including a number from subcontractors hired for the…