March 8, 2010
Onshore wind key to green economy
The state’s new “Roadmap for Advancing the Green Economy in Rhode Island” calls for the installation of 100 megawatts of onshore wind power capacity, enough to generate electricity to power up to 325,000 households a year, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
This represents a new direction in renewable energy policy for the state, says Eric Offenberg, chief technical officer for rTerra Renewable Energy Partners, a private renewable energy firm in Middletown. Offenberg, who also is a partner at Middletown-based Sustainable Global Energy (SGE), said he served as “the quarterback” for the road map’s wind section. To reach the capacity goal within the next five years, the state will “target installing 20 megawatts a year,” he said. Read more…
