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Funding Resources
Funding Resources
| RI Net Metering Standards | |
|---|---|
| Type of Incentive | Net Metering |
| Eligible States | RI |
| Eligible Technology | Backpressure Turbine, Boiler, Combustion Turbine, Condensing Turbine, Extracting Turbine, Fuel Cell, Microturbine, Other, Reciprocating Engine, Heat Recovery Generator, Stirling Engine |
| Eligible Fuel | # 2 Fuel Oil, # 6 Fuel Oil, Biogas, Biomass, Coal, Hydrogen, LFG, Municipal Solid Waste, Natural Gas, Other, Tire-Derived Fuel, Waste heat Recovery |
| Eligible Project Size | 0 - 3.5 |
| Number of Awards | |
| Size of Award | Eligible Technologies: Solar Thermal Electric, Photovoltaics, Wind, CHP/Cogeneration Size Limitations: 3.5 MW for systems owned by cities, towns or the Narragansett Bay Commission; 2.25 MW for systems developed but not owned by cities and towns, sited on land owned by the city or town, and providing power solely to the city or town; 1.65 MW for all other customers. Overall Enrollment Restrictions: 2% of the utility's peak load (1 MW of this limit is reserved for systems under 25 kW) Net Excess: Credited at a rate slightly less than the utility's retail rate and carried forward for a 12 month period. Net excess remaining at the end of a 12 month period is transferred to the Rhode Island Renewable Energy Low-Income Fund. |
| Start Date | 7/2/2007 |
| End Date |
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| Additional Information | In 2006, Rhode Island enacted legislation that allows the PUC to establish standards for net metering. In July 2007, Rhode Island enacted legislation (2007 RI H.B. 5566 and 2008 H.B. 7809) expanding the availability of net-metering in Rhode Island. In December 2008, the RI PUC approved an amendment to National Grid's Qualifying Facilities Purchase Power Rate. This amendment was effective January 1, 2009. |
| Web Site |
http://www.ripuc.org/eventsactions/docket/4079-NGrid-Ord19821(11-4-09).pdf  |
| Additional Web Site |
http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/ incentive2.cfm?Incentive_Code=RI01R&state=RI&CurrentPageID=1&RE=1&EE=1 |
| Primary Contact |
Consumer Information 89 Jefferson Boulevard Warwick, RI 02888 U.S.A. (401) 941-4500 |