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IN THE WIND: Nascent local industry holds promise of job growth

Rhode to Work 09/29/2023

When Rhode Island political leaders, educators and employers consider the future of offshore wind – with lots of big, white turbines spinning in the...

EVERSOURCE ENERGY LLC is selling off its interests in the joint venture that is building massive power generation farms off the coasts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Long Island. / AP FILE PHOTO/DAVID GOLDMAN

Eversource to sell all interests in offshore wind joint venture

Economic Activity 05/12/2023

PROVIDENCE – New England’s leading developer of offshore wind is selling off its interests in the joint venture that is building massive power generation...

Orsted to take full ownership of New Jersey offshore wind farm

Economic Activity 01/18/2023

PROVIDENCE – Offshore wind developer Orsted Offshore North America is set to become the full owner of an offshore wind farm planned off the...

STACEY MESSIER, general manager of CIC Providence LLC, was recently named general manager of Cambridge Innovation Center's New England region, in which she'll continue to oversee the CIC Providence campus, alongside CIC's Boston and Cambridge, Mass., locations. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Five Questions With: Stacey Messier

5Q 10/28/2022

Stacey Messier | General manager, CIC Providence LLC 1. What is your background in entrepreneurship, and how does this inform your vision for CIC Providence, which...

5 years later, Block Island celebrated as birthplace of U.S. offshore...

Economic Activity 09/22/2022

PROVIDENCE – State leaders lavished praise on the people who envisioned and built the Block Island Wind Farm while marking its five-year anniversary on...

Five Questions With: Kai Salem

5Q 03/18/2022

Kai Salem | Policy coordinator, Green Energy Consumers Alliance 1. What are Green Energy Consumers Alliance’s top priorities in 2022? Green Energy Consumers’ top priority for Rhode...

CLEAN ENVIRONMENT: An Amgen employee works inside the next-generation biomanufacturing plant built in West Greenwich in 2020. / COURTESY AMGEN RHODE ISLAND/AL WEEMS

Building on the promise of biotech

Government 11/26/2021

TECHNOLOGY With help from companies ranging from global corporations to local startups, Rhode Island has had its share of victories in the biotech sector in...

R.I. LARGE SCALE: Matthew Morrissey, head of Northeast markets for Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind Power, stands in the company’s office in Providence in March 2020. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

State is banking on power boost

Government 11/26/2021

ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT Change usually happens slowly, especially when government gets involved. But in the last five years, the nascent renewable energy sector has exploded in the United...

State energy regulators to begin final review of cable burial plans...

Business Services 10/08/2021

WARWICK – Developers of the Revolution Wind Farm are seeking to avoid the problems with undersea cables resurfacing that plagued Block Island. Unlike on Block...