The Little Roady, an autonomous shuttle pilot project, now offers self-driving transport in Rhode Island, and it is an awardee of some of that VW dieselgate settlement funding. RIDOT (the Rhode Island Department of Transportation) is using these self-driving shuttles as a pilot project to fill a transit gap between its downtown-Providence Amtrak station and a business park across the river.
Washington, D.C., Virginia, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont are working together to formulate a policy proposal to reduce transportation carbon emissions.
The point of the collective effort is to reduce air pollution, improve transportation to underserved people and develop economic opportunities.
The collaborators have a goal to generate the low-carbon regional policy in one year, after which they can decide if they are going to adopt it.
Danish offshore wind energy giant Ørsted has entered into an agreement to acquire the Rhode Island-based offshore wind developer behind the 30 megawatt (MW) Block Island offshore wind farm, Deepwater Wind, in a move set to be worth $510 million and which will result in the creation of a US offshore wind platform.
Offshore wind farms in the Northeast corner of the United States are under consideration by New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Maryland, even though the Cape Wind project is now officially dead.
Elon Musk was the keynote speaker at the National Governors Association conference in Providence, Rhode Island, last weekend. He used the occasion to remind the group of his oft voiced concerns about artificial intelligence, calling it the “biggest risk we face as a civilization.” In the absence of appropriate government regulations, Musk fears AI could progress to the point where homicidal robots roam the cities of the world, making them even more dangerous than Chicago.
Spurred by a $500,000 grant from the US Department of Energy, Plug In America will partner with the University of Rhode Island to promote the electric car revolution in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Tiny Rhode Island has been leaping wind energy obstacles right and left, and is on its way to getting the nation’s first offshore wind farm off the ground.
Deepwater Wind has won the Interior Department’s first-ever competitive offshore wind lease auction, totaling 164,750 acres near Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Deepwater’s $3.8 million bid wins it the right to build the Deepwater Wind Energy Center, a 1,000MW utility-scale wind farm with 200 turbines and a regional transmission system linking to New York State and southeastern New England.
The date is not etched in stone, but Deepwater Wind hopes to build the first U.S. offshore wind farm near Rhode Island, possibly replacing the energy generating capacity of nuclear power plants.
The US offshore wind industry has outlasted its critics, as indicated by a new rash of activity including a green light for the massive 2-gigawatt Maryland Offshore Wind project.
