Tag: solar energy
Ocean State Job Lot anticipates quintupled solar arrays by 2025
NORTH KINGSTOWN – By the end of next year, Ocean State Job Lot expects a five-fold increase in its solar energy infrastructure, the company...
Solar companies have to earn the trust of homeowners
For two years in a row, Rhode Island residents have been burdened with unprecedented electricity rate hikes as high as 47%. It’s no wonder...
ProvPort enters partnership to generate 1.7 megawatts of solar energy
PROVIDENCE – ProvPort Inc. on Wednesday announced plans to build a solar project that will generate 1.7 megawatts of clean energy from panels on...
More people taking advantage of financial, environmental benefits of solar energy
PBN 2021 Fastest Growing Companies Awards
$250,000 - $5 million: 5. E2SOL LLC
CEO (or equivalent): Anthony Baro, founder and managing principal
2020 Revenue: $1.7 million
2018 Revenue:...
Report: R.I. could power 1.5M homes with solar arrays on developed...
PROVIDENCE – As the state forges ahead with ambitious renewable-energy goals, solar arrays on already-developed land such as brownfields and parking lots could play...
COVID-19 will slow shift to renewable energy
The renewable energy industry, which until recently was projected to enjoy rapid growth, has run into stiff headwinds as a result of three era-defining...
URI official: ‘No downside’ to consortium’s 46-MW project
Tucked behind a half-filled student parking lot, partially obscured by chain-link fencing, acres of solar panels are quietly powering a new future for the...
PUC approves financial incentive for solar canopies on parking lots
WARWICK – Rhode Island will soon begin offering an extra financial incentive to commercial solar developers who build their ground-mounted canopies over parking lots.
The...
Renewable energy developer to seek $285M in damages against Exeter, Coventry
NORTH KINGSTOWN – One of the state’s largest renewable energy developers Thursday announced plans to sue the towns of Coventry and Exeter for allegedly...
Incentive aims to slow solar-panel sprawl on R.I. farmlands, forests
An extra 6 cents doesn’t seem like much of a financial incentive, but state officials and environmental groups are hoping it’s enough to lure...