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Saturday, March 18, 2023
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), Block Island windmills, and NextEra’s CEO John Ketchum
Whereas Rhode Island is house to America’s first offshore wind challenge and now pushing ahead with two main offshore wind tasks so as to meet the state’s renewable vitality objectives, the CEO of Florida-based NextEra has a a lot completely different view.
NextEra was chosen to be the unique electrical energy supplier to Windfall and 6 different communities’ group electrical energy program.
Barrington, Central Falls, Narragansett, Newport, Portsmouth, Windfall, and South Kingstown are a part of this system.
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Practically all residential and enterprise prospects in these cities and cities are being mechanically switched from Rhode Island Vitality in Could.
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Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis PHOTO: Gov’s Workplace NextEra and Shut Ties to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
A collection of experiences within the Miami Herald, The Lever, ProPublica, and The Guardian has tracked hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in donations from NextEra to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida Republicans, GOP election deniers in Congress, and allegations of darkish cash fueling political soiled tips.
A Democratic occasion whitepaper issued in September criticized the shut relationship between Florida Energy & Mild (FPL) and Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. FPL is a subsidiary of NextEra.
Orlando Sentinel report on the controversy tied to Florida Energy and Mild – a subsidiary of NextEra
“The truth is, no different elected official in Florida did extra to assist Florida Energy & Mild land its $5 billion charge enhance than DeSantis — who’s now operating for re-election and who, campaign-finance data present, has raised greater than $3 million from FPL and a community of big-business entrance teams and dark-money nonprofits that the corporate helps to fund,” mentioned the Democratic Social gathering.
And final summer time, CBS Information reported that “U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., mentioned in a letter to Lawyer Normal Merrick Garland that current press experiences in Florida had “uncovered obvious corruption, affect peddling and breaches of the general public belief by Florida’s largest electrical utility Florida Energy & Mild and its officers.”
NextEra CEO Ketchum. PHOTO: NextEra
NextEra CEO Blasts Offshore Wind
Reuters reported, “Offshore wind is a foul guess because of the problems of putting in and sustaining infrastructure at sea and the excessive price of transmitting electrical energy again to shore, NextEra Chief Govt John Ketchum mentioned final Wednesday at CERAWeek, one of many nation’s largest vitality convention.”
“It’s totally capital intensive,” Ketchum mentioned.
This criticism will not be new for the Florida-based firm. Earlier CEOs additionally criticized offshore wind — the trade that many in Rhode Island name the way forward for the state’s financial system.
In 2017, then-NextEra Vitality CEO Jim Robo mentioned the economics for offshore wind tasks are dangerous for purchasers throughout an earnings name. He mentioned offshore wind is “horrible vitality coverage.”
The Biden administration has a major concentrate on rising the U.S. offshore wind energy as a part of its effort to chop greenhouse gases.
Each former Governor Gina Raimondo and Governor Dan McKee have been sturdy supporters of the expansion of the offshore wind trade in Rhode Island. As Secretary of Commerce, Raimondo has continued her advocacy for offshore wind; in March of 2021, Raimondo mentioned, “We stay up for working throughout the private and non-private sectors to put money into clear vitality options, like offshore wind, that may contribute to our whole-of-government method to fight the local weather emergency and create high-paying, high-skilled American jobs.”
On the time, the Commerce Division, together with the Departments of Inside and Vitality, introduced a shared purpose to deploy 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind in the US by 2030, whereas defending biodiversity and selling ocean co-use. Assembly this goal will set off greater than $12 billion per 12 months in capital funding in tasks on each U.S. coasts, create tens of hundreds of good-paying, union jobs, with greater than 44,000 employees employed in offshore wind by 2030 and almost 33,000 extra jobs in communities supported by offshore wind exercise. It would additionally generate sufficient energy to satisfy the demand of greater than 10 million American houses for a 12 months and keep away from 78 million metric tons of CO2 emissions.
The Biden administration has auctioned leases in federal waters. However a lot of the curiosity in these leases has up to now come from European firms.
“We discover it exhausting sufficient simply to care for a fleet onshore with a number of the points that we take care of as an organization, and we’re finest at school,” he mentioned at CERA.
Development of America’s first offshore wind challenge off of Block Island. PHOTO: Deepwater
Rhode Island’s Robust Deal with the Offshore Wind Trade 
Rhode Island is betting that offshore wind might be a important financial and environmental engine for the longer term.
“We promised that we might lead when it got here to serving to Rhode Island meet its clear vitality objectives, and attaining this newest milestone is proof of our dedication,” mentioned Dave Bonenberger, president of Rhode Island Vitality in October. “This procurement is important to assembly the state’s 100% renewable era purpose by the 2033 goal and accelerating development within the native clear vitality financial system.”
This previous week Ørsted and Eversource introduced their software to be chosen for a significant offshore wind challenge in Rhode Island. They have been the one applicant.
It is a mega-project. It’s poised to ship renewable energy to as many as 500,000 Rhode Island houses; in keeping with the businesses, the proposed 884-megawatt Revolution Wind 2 represents greater than $2 billion in direct financial advantages to Rhode Island.
Ørsted and Eversource say they’re anticipating lots of of recent jobs and might be creating sufficient electrical energy to energy as many as 500,000 in Rhode Island and the area.
Executives gathered for the Management Dialogue session with John Ketchum, Chairman, President & CEO of @NextEraEnergyR, and @DanielYergin, Vice Chairman of @SPGlobal, immediately at #CERAWeek. https://t.co/7eGq8evTNY pic.twitter.com/xvWdNWlpzI
— CERAWeek (@CERAWeek) March 9, 2023
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Two people were killed and another injured in a head-on crash in Foster, Rhode Island, on Christmas Eve.
Police tell NBC10 Boston affiliate WJAR that they responded to the crash around 3:10 p.m. Tuesday on Hartford Pike and found two vehicles in the eastbound lane with heavy front-end damage, as well as three people with serious injuries.
An investigation shows one vehicle was traveling westbound when it crossed over into the eastbound lane in an attempt to pass several other cars, and struck another vehicle head-on, according to WJAR.
The driver of the first vehicle — identified as Aaron McCrory, of Danielson, Connecticut — was taken to Rhode Island Hospital where he was pronounced dead, WJAR reports. A passenger in the second vehicle — identified as Sandi Brooks, of Vernon, Conn. — was also taken to Rhode Island Hospital where she died from her injuries.
The driver of the second vehicle was injured in the crash and taken to Rhode Island Hospital where they are in stable condition, police tell WJAR.
Further details about the crash have not been released.
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Woman dies in Rhode Island car crash 1 month after husband of 58 years died unexpectedly
Two people are dead and another injured after a vehicle collision on Tuesday in Rhode Island.
Crews responded to the area of 212 Hartford Pike in Foster at approximately 3:15 p.m. for a two-car head-on crash with one occupant still trapped in the vehicle and not breathing.
According to WJAR 10, a vehicle traveling westbound crossed over into the eastbound lane attempting to pass several vehicles.
The operator of the passing vehicle, 34-year-old Aaron McCrory of Danielson, Connecticut, was brought to Rhode Island Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
The passenger of the second vehicle, 81-year-old Sandi Brooks of Vernon, Connecticut, was also transported to Rhode Island Hospital where she was pronounced deceased.
The driver of the second vehicle is in stable condition at Rhode Island Hospital.
82-year-old Neil Brooks, who was married to Sandi for 58 years, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, November 27, 2024.
While the crash was a terrible tragedy, we can hope that Neil and Sandi are together again.
Kevin Colantonio, 35, of North Providence, R.I., was arrested a few days after the fire at Shiloh Gospel Temple. He is expected to admit to targeting the church because of its mostly Black membership.
Burning At Shiloh Gospel Temple
United States Attorney Zachary Cunha addresses media.
PROVIDENCE, R. I. – A Rhode Island man has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he set fire to a North Providence church earlier this year, targeting it because of its mostly Black membership, according to court documents.
Kevin Colantonio of North Providence was arrested a few days after the early morning fire Feb. 11 at Shiloh Gospel Temple, a Pentecostal church.
He admitted to buying a Bic lighter and gasoline at a nearby Cumberland Farms shortly before midnight, pouring the gasoline around the outside of the church and igniting it, according to a plea agreement filed Friday in U.S. District Court, Providence.
Colantonio’s actions caused church services to be cancelled, according to court records, preventing its congregants from their free exercise of religion. He stipulated he chose the church because of actual or perceived color, race, religion, national origin or ethnicity of its members.
Surveillance video, information from witnesses and a bank card helped lead police to Colantonio. Investigators said they found racist writings in Colantonio’s apartment. Prosecutors read from one of them during Colantonio’s initial court appearance four days after the fire. It said: “Hunt them down. Gun everyone who isn’t white.”
Colantonio has also agreed to plead guilty to charges that he threw feces and urine at two prison guards who were delivering his breakfast on March 4 at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, court papers show.
Colantonio was charged with damage to a religious property, malicious damage by means of fire and two counts of assault of a federal officer. The first two counts carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The second count requires a minimum sentence of five years.
The arson unnerved the church community, which has about 100 members, and drew intense police scrutiny. Pastor Eric Perry said the fire could have been fatal if the church had been holding a service when it was set.
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