On January 29, 2015, RENEW testified before the Rhode Island House Committee on Corporations in support of extending Rhode Island’s Renewable Energy Standard beyond the current goal of 16 percent by 2019. In calling for 1.5 percent annual increases from 2020 to 2035, RENEW explained how renewable energy development outperforms fossil fuels in two important ways when it comes to driving job growth: 1) renewable energy development is relatively labor intensive, so it creates more jobs per dollar invested than fossil fuel resources; and 2) installing renewable energy facilities uses primarily local workers so investment dollars are kept in locally. A 2014 study conducted by the Brattle Group for the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources and Commerce RI reveals how adding between 164 MW and 1008 MW of renewable energy capacity to Rhode Island between 2015 and 2024 yielded net positive economic and environmental impacts. Economic output will increase between $556 million and $2.3 billion in present value terms.
LATEST NEWS
- RENEW Northeast Complaint Seeks to Remove Barriers to Entry for New Power Generation in New England December 13, 2022
- Letter to Dept. of Commerce to express concern about a request for country-wide circumvention inquiries brought by Auxin Solar April 8, 2022
- Letter to FERC on Energy Storage ITC and ISO-NE Capacity Market December 10, 2021
- Public Act 21-53 Procurement for Energy Storage December 2, 2021
- RENEW’s comments in response to Maine PUC’s NOI on procurement of transmission and renewable energy for northern Maine September 24, 2021
- Letter to Dept. of Commerce in opposition to the imposition of duties on imports of solar products September 22, 2021
- RENEW Northeast Statement: In Today’s Heat Wave, Renewable Energy and Storage Can Meet Peak Electricity Demands August 12, 2021
- Testimony to the Massachusetts General Court, Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy July 23, 2021
- Testimony in support of allocating $100 million of ARPA funds to facilitate economic development activity for the offshore wind industry through port development July 20, 2021
- INTERVIEW: Connecticut’s IRP lags on energy storage procurements. Will pending bill respond? June 4, 2021
- RENEW Northeast Statement on US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Record of Decision for Vineyard Wind May 11, 2021
- CT Mirror: Connecticut should accelerate energy storage deployment to benefit consumers and the environment May 6, 2021
- FERC Should Adopt NEPOOL ORTP Alternative April 8, 2021
- Broad Coalition Applauds Biden Administration Offshore Wind Moves, Signaling United Support for Responsible Development April 5, 2021
- CT Raised Bill 6498 Discourages Solar Investment & Raises Costs March 22, 2021