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Audi of America and Arcadia offer renewable energy subscription with e-tron or e-tron Sportback lease or purchase

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Arcadia connects renters and homeowners across the US to wind and solar energy through utility data and billing technology. In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area.

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

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Anything more ambitious, and I would start being a little skeptical that it would be attainable,” says Seaver Wang , a climate and energy researcher at the Breakthrough Institute. It is true that Rhode Island is small. But Rhode Island plans to fill the gap with as much as 600 megawatts of new wind power.

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Poll Finds Majority Support for Offshore Wind in Southern New England

Green Energy Consumers

If you read our blog on the High Cost of Saying NO to Offshore Wind , you know that offshore wind technology brings numerous benefits. Recent poll results from the Barr Foundation highlight consensus among Southern New England residents in favor of offshore wind initiatives.

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Offshore Wind Critical to Preservation of a Livable & Equitable Future

Green Energy Consumers

The climate crisis demands a fundamental cultural shift in our energy system. Revolution Wind 1 and the South Fork Wind projects off Rhode Island’s coast meet a critical need for large-scale carbon-free electricity generation in the Northeast.

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CMU/DAI study finds shutting down US nuclear plants would have significant negative economic and environmental consequences

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The number of replacement wind turbines is estimated using 70 meter, 2.5 To replace the nuclear plants located in counties with populations over half a million with wind power would require the construction of 25,000 large wind turbines on land greater than one and half times the size of Rhode Island.

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Happy New Year for Climate & Cleantech, New England?

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According to the science, over the next 7 years we must focus on reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases significantly to halve emissions by 2030 and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Getting there requires an all-of-society approach; getting there requires leadership at all levels of government.

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How NIST Learns from Horrific Disaster

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When Franklin Lombardo arrived at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the summer of 2010 as a newly-minted PhD in wind engineering, he expected to spend his time there developing wind maps of the US. The maps need to be refreshed regularly as science, technology, and the climate change.

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