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Section 39-26-1 Legislative findings.

RI Gen L § 39-26-1 (2019) (N/A)
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§ 39-26-1. Legislative findings. The General Assembly finds that:

(a) The people and energy users of Rhode Island have an interest in having electricity supplied in the state come from a diversity of energy sources including renewable resources;

(b) Increased use of renewable energy may have the potential to lower and stabilize future energy costs;

(c) Increased use of renewable energy can reduce air pollutants, including carbon dioxide emissions, that adversely affect public health and contribute to global warming;

(d) Massachusetts, Connecticut, and other states have established renewable energy standard programs to encourage the development of renewable energy sources;

(e) It is in the interest of the people, in order to protect public health and the environment and to promote the general welfare, to establish a renewable energy standard program to increase levels of electric energy supplied in the state from renewable resources.

History of Section. (P.L. 2004, ch. 199, § 1; P.L. 2004, ch. 205, § 1.)

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