Renewable Energy for Homeowners

Rhode Island homeowners, landlords, and renters paying their own electric bills have at least one option for adopting sources of renewable energy for their electricity use.

• Purchase Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) through Green Energy Consumers Alliance.* This helps increase the development of renewable energy sources in Rhode Island and their contribution to the growth of the region's power supply.

For homeowners and landlords:

• Install solar panels on their building or property
• Solarize RI

• Install geothermal or wind turbine system [other?]

Topics to research for those installing renewable energy systems include:

• Distributed Generation
• Distributed Generation Contracts Program
• Guidelines

• Net Metering
• Demand Response
• Future Plans

• Battery Storage (a Massachusetts Energy Storage Initiative Study)

*National Grid lists two other providers, but Green Energy Consumers Alliance is the only one selling Rhode Island RECs. Providential Gardener focuses on Rhode Island companies and organizations.

draft - in process 3/2/19