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Rhode Island's Renewable Energy Goal a Beacon for Other States

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Much of the meager wind power that does exist comes either from other states or from the 30-megawatt Block Island Wind Farm—the first offshore wind farm in the US—which consists of just five turbines and only came online in 2016. But Rhode Island plans to fill the gap with as much as 600 megawatts of new wind power.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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mpg by 2016. Imagine the change to this outlook if these companies were required to provide 20 percent of the power they generated from an alternative energy source in order to provide any power to the grid. Even ruling Hawaii out as an outlier, the cost of electricity in Connecticut was 17.79 in Connecticut.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Connecticut Department of Transportation. The Connecticut Department of Transportation will receive funding to purchase 40' Proterra E2 Max battery electric buses through a joint effort with CTtransit’s Hartford Division and Greater Bridgeport Transit. The buses will replace diesel buses that have exceeded useful life. 1,000,000.

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