The Future of Rhode Island

We in the emPower office have been hearing some rumbles about Project Get Ready expanding into Rhode Island. For those of you not familiar with Get Ready, they’re guys who help develop plug in electric vehicle infrastructure. Here’s how they describe themselves:

Project Get Ready is a non-profit initiative led by Rocky Mountain Institute, in conjunction with a wide array of partners and technical advisers. Project Get Ready will:
* Create a dynamic “menu” of strategic plug-in readiness actions including the “business case” for each action.
* Provide a web database of American and international plug-in readiness activities.
* Convene at least 20 cities as well as technical players regularly to discuss their lessons learned and best practices, and report these conversations on our website and materials.

They mostly deal with individual cities, but apparently all of Rhode Island is small enough to be considered a city. The Ocean State pulled together a few grid VIP’s to start thinking about laying the groundwork to electrifying transportation. No solid facts yet (our secret sources are pretty tight lipped), but keep an eye out for more E-Car infrastructure to start popping up in RI.