RI’s Clean Energy Portfolio

Embrace Home Loans in Middletown, RI buiding — Embrace Home Loans first to use C-PACE

Embrace Home Loans in Middletown, RI, one of Rhode Island’s fastest-growing companies, is the first company to complete a solar project using the new Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy program.

Rose Hill & Plains Road Closed Landfill Solar Projects

The University of Rhode Island and the towns of Narragansett and South Kingstown join forces to turn landfills into solar energy.

Meeting Street School Solar Project

Located on the south side of Providence, Meeting Street School saves $30,000 in energy costs by installing a rooftop solar array.

Rocky Hill School uses solar panels as a teaching tool

Rocky Hill School in Warwick, has a rooftop array which not only provides 20 percent of the building’s annual electricity, but also offers an educational tool for teachers.

Church Community net-zero home

The Church Community Housing Corporation built a single-family house in Tiverton, Rhode Island, that looks and functions like a conventional home, but produces enough electricity to offset its entire electrical consumption over the course of a year.

Study results show benefits of Tiverton and Little Compton solar project

As more homes and businesses install renewable energy projects, communities will generate more of their own local power via solar and wind, potentially reducing demand on the electrical grid.

As of the second quarter of 2024, the state has counted approximately 1373 MW of clean energy generation capacity. Of that 1373 MW total, 749 MW is solar, 430 MW is offshore wind, 148 MW is onshore wind, 35 MW is landfill gas/anaerobic digestion, and 11 MW is small-scale hydroelectric power.

With the addition of the 400 MW Revolution Wind project, approximately 85 percent of Rhode Island's current clean energy portfolio is comprised of in-state renewables or projects scheduled for adjacent federal waters. For more information and resources on climate change in Rhode Island visit https://climatechange.ri.gov.

How we count projects in RI’s Clean Energy Portfolio

The projects that are counted in Rhode Island’s clean energy portfolio include a wide variety of sizes and locations, of the following technologies:

Solar, whether rooftop, carport, or ground mount
Small hydro
Wind, both offshore and onshore
Landfill gas/anaerobic digestion

Projects may be proposed, under development, or even under construction without being counted in the portfolio. A clean energy project is only counted when one of the following events has occurred:

Project is interconnected to the electric grid. This set of projects includes projects that use one of the state renewable energy programs, including the Renewable Energy Growth Program, Net Metering, the Renewable Energy Fund.
The project has a long-term contract or Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) approved by the RI Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Projects in this category are generally larger scale projects which have been selected under a competitive bid process, negotiated a PPA with the utility, and had the PPA reviewed and approved by the PUC.

Energy Storage Statistics

Energy Storage Statistics provides an interactive dashboard of the progress and development of energy storage systems throughout Rhode Island.

The dashboard below will be updated quarterly.

Questions? Email Shauna.Beland@energy.ri.gov

Last updated July 30, 2024

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RI Office of Energy Resources, Energy Storage Dashboard
Data last updated July 30, 2024. Retrieved [insert date retrieved] from: https://energy.ri.gov/renewable-energy/energy-storage-0

Terms & Definitions:

Total Rated Continuous Power Output: Continuous power is the amount of power that a battery can supply to continuously power a device that’s already started. Total rated continuous power output is the maximum amount of power a device can continuously produce under normal conditions over a period of time. A battery’s power rating is important for determining which and how many appliances you can run at the same time.

DG Fuel Source: DG= Distributed Generation. The type of renewable energy resource interconnected to the battery, if any.

Net-Metered: A net-metered renewable energy system uses a bi-directional meter to “net-out” a customers monthly electricity use. At the end of the month, a customer pays the net of the electricity load that was both consumed and produced.

Qualifying Facility: Click here to visit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) website on qualifying facilities.

Bill Rates:

A-16: Residential Energy Customer Rate
A-60: Low-Income Bill-Rate
C06: Commercial Bill Rate
G32: Industrial Bill Rate