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Real projects financed through RIIB programs. Browse by program area, or open any story for the full partner, challenge, and results.
Water Stories
2 stories
A Resilient New Water Treatment Plant in Woonsocket
Partner City of Woonsocket Challenge: The City of Woonsocket’s aging drinking water plant was not meeting Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management water quality discharge standards and entered into an agreemen…
Ensuring a Cleaner Narragansett Bay
Partner Town of Warren Challenge: Warren’s municipal wastewater treatment facility was found to be discharging high levels of nitrogen into Warren Harbor and Narragansett Bay. Warren officials reached out to the Infrastr…
Energy Stories
6 stories
Rhode Island’s First Battery Storage Facility
Partner Pascoag Utility District Challenge: Pascoag Utility District supplies power to approximately 5,000 customers in Northern Rhode Island. During peak summer months, high electricity demand was putting the facility a…
Large Spaces, Larger Energy Savings
Partner Cogent Capital Challenge: The Eddy Street Self Storage facility is a 155,850-SF warehouse and storage facility in Providence, Rhode Island. Buildings of this size and type are typically large energy consumers; th…
Eddy Street Self Storage Facility
Partner Cogent Capital Challenge: The Eddy Street Self Storage facility is a 155,850-sf warehouse and storage facility in Providence, Rhode Island. Buildings of this size and type are typically large energy consumers; th…
Building Energy Efficiency into East Providence’s New High School
Partner City of East Providence Challenge: Effectively financing a major school construction project to lower costs for community residents. Solution: Integrated a $24 million loan from the Efficient Buildings Fund into …
Cash Flow Positive from Day One
Partner McQuade’s ACE Hardware Challenge: Limited capital available to install a solar photovoltaic system, a project with a positive return on investment. Solution: $450,000 fixed rate , 20-year Commercial property-asse…
Leveraging Prior Efficiency Investments
Partner Green Line Apothecary Challenge: Green Line Apothecary invested nearly $350,000 in energy-saving upgrades at their Providence location, including LED lighting, spray-foam insulation, and high-efficiency HVAC equi…
Resilience Stories
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Increasing Resilience & Restoring Almy Pond in Newport
Partner City of Newport Challenge: Mitigating stormwater runoff into Almy Pond, one of the most distressed bodies of water in the state. Solution: $180,000 Municipal Resilience Program Action Grant. Results: The City of …
Municipal Stories
2 stories
The Grass is Greener
Partner City of Central Falls Challenge: Macomber Stadium has served generations of Central Falls High School athletes, but in 2017 the field was deemed unsafe due to contaminated soil. Surrounded by abandoned mills and …
Reopening Boombridge Road in Westerly
Partner Town of Westerly Challenge: Identifying financing to repair and reopen Boombridge Road bridge connecting the towns of Westerly and North Stonington, Connecticut, which sat closed since 2008 due to safety concerns…
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