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REALLY NOT NEEDED? The proposed natural gas-fired power plant in Burrillville was rejected over the summer by state regulators after the company proposing to build it, Invenergy, could not prove to the state Energy Facility Siting Board that it was needed. Now a study by the Rocky Mountain Institute questions whether nearly all plants across the nation such as this will be economically feasible at all within a decade and a half, thus supporting more investments in renewable energy. / COURTESY INVENERGY LLC

State considering $47M power lines for Burrillville power plant

Capital Goods 05/23/2017

WARWICK – State regulators are considering a $47.2 million transmission line project to connect the pending 1,000-megawatt, gas-fired power plant in Burrillville to the region’s...

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