Adds high light output double-ended quartz halogen lamp, tubular quartz and portable electric spa among the products sold or installed in the state for which a minimum efficiency standard must be met.
PACE, or Property-Assessed Clean Energy, creates a financing mechanism for homeowners for clean energy and energy efficiency improvements and allows them to repay the loan on their property taxes.
Would enact the Biodiesel Heating Oil Act of 2013, which would require that all heating oil sold in the state contain five percent (5%) of a bio-based product.
Establishes a procedure to allow municipalities to purchase, rather than rent, their street lights for the purpose of reducing municipal street lighting costs.
Regulates the placement of renewable energy facilities on farmlands.
Expands distributed generation program: expands long term contracting renewable energy programs to include large hydro facilities.
This act would amend the definition of small distributed generation project, and would allow hydroelectric projects to participate in the standard contract enforcement program.
This act would reinstate the residential renewable energy system tax credit.
The Pascoag Utility District was recognized for their Annual Green Festival conservation education programs which have been a success for the past five years.
The Pascoag Utility District was incorporated by a special act of the Rhode Island General Assembly. A quasi-municipal utility, Pascoag provides Electricity and Water on a "not for profit" basis. Pascoag Electric is regulated by the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission. Currently we provide Electric service to approximately 5,000 customers in Pascoag and Harrisville RI and 1,200 Water customers in Pascoag.
