Saturday, July 19, 2025

TOPICS

Home Tags Renewable Energy

Tag: Renewable Energy

A NEW LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION is starting the process of examining the cost-effectiveness of Rhode Island's clean energy programs. / AP FILE PHOTO/JOHN ANTCZAK

Are R.I.’s clean energy programs costing too much? This panel is...

With many Rhode Islanders complaining about skyrocketing energy bills, a new legislative commission is starting to scrutinize the state’s clean energy programs and incentives...
Patrick Crowley

Harming offshore wind undermines prosperity

Recent actions by President Donald Trump’s administration have introduced significant challenges to the United States’ offshore wind industry, threatening economic growth, job creation and...
FULL OF ENERGY: University of Rhode Island engineering student Casey Egan is interning with the utility company PPL Corp. and is hopeful the partnership between PPL and URI will give researchers a chance to contribute to the fight against climate change. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

New accord could propel green energy research at URI

The University of Rhode Island is hoping a new partnership with the utility company PPL Corp. will pay off by bringing in millions of...
Steven J. King

King receives leadership award from New England Water Environment Association

STEVEN J. KING, managing director for Quonset Development Corp., recently received the New England Water Environment Association’s 2023 Elizabeth Cutone Executive Leadership Award for...
James ­Morton Turner

Green manufacturing boom in U.S. has a big problem

Panasonic’s new $4 billion battery factory in De Soto, Kan., is designed to be a model of sustainability – it’s an all-electric factory. When...

PBN’s 2024 Emerging Industries Summit slated for March 13

PROVIDENCE – Opportunities for investment and job growth in the state’s blue economy, renewable energy, biotechnology and other life sciences are among the topics...

Fishermen fighting the inevitable

Offshore wind is here and will multiply off Rhode Island’s coast, with or without the participation of local commercial fishing interests. That’s why it was...
ECONOMIC HEADWINDS have created hurdles in the offshore wind industry and were cited in Rhode Island Energy's rejection of a power-purchase agreement for the proposed 884-megawatt Revolution Wind 2 wind farm. COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

Is R.I. Energy’s offshore wind decision a bad sign for the...

Now that Rhode Island Energy has rejected the only bid received to bring 600 to 1,000 megawatts of offshore wind to the Ocean State,...

CVS Health enters renewable energy partnership

WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. will implement renewable energy technology at 147 of its locations in Michigan as part of a new partnership with a Baltimore energy...

Vacancies put pressure on CRMC as advocates call for more state...

Four hundred miles of coastline. Hundreds of development project permit applications. Four major renewable energy projects already under review with applications for several more...
- Featured Event -

Latest News