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MAJOR enviro legislation passes Senate committee
11:07 pm on May 20th, 2008 by Dave Segal
This is a huge step — Rhode Island is about to truly become a national leader in the movement towards a ‘green economy’.
The Senate Corporations Committee just passed bills 2850, 2851, and 2852, which would require National Grid to procure and distribute large sums of renewable electricity, and which would substantially broaden the ability of households, businesses, and municipalities to make use of “net-metering” — basically allowing them to recoup the full value of the electricity the generate.
The House versions of those bills are likely to pass the House Environment Committee tomorrow night, and become law within weeks.
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May 21st, 2008 at 10:02 am
Hey Dave–
This is good news. Do you know of any efforts in RI on the job training side for people to take advantage of the jobs in renewable energy that this will result in? Are there any vocational tracks in solar or wind industries at the high schools?