R.I. Infrastructure Bank provides $1.4M to study PFAS in drinking water

Providence Business News — The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank has awarded a $1.4 million grant to the University of Rhode Island’s Cooperative Extension to continue its work assisting the R.I. Department of Health and the R.I. Department of Environmental Management in identifying reasons why groundwater and surface water might be contaminated with synthetic chemicals. Read…

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R.I. Infrastructure Bank Provides $77,000 To Richmond’s Shannock Water District For New Emergency Generator

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank, the state’s central hub for financing infrastructure improvements for municipalities, businesses, and homeowners, has closed on a $77,000 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) loan, with 100% principal forgives (i.e. a grant), for the Shannock Water District to install a new emergency generator. Located in Richmond, the Shannock…

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July 22, 2024 Board Meeting Agenda

Notice of MeetingRhode Island Infrastructure BankBoard of Directors – July 22, 2024 3:00 P.M. Meeting AgendaPLACE: 275 Promenade Street, Suite 301Providence, RI 02908TIME: 3:00 P.M.OLD BUSINESS:

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Notice of Solicitations: Small Business Energy Fund Pilot Program And Technical Assistance

PROPOSALS SOUGHT FOR: Technical assistance for non-profits, and other private entities, to construct or make improvements to clean energy-related infrastructure and projects including but not limited to, those related to greenhouse gas reduction or elimination, zero-emission technology, clean transportation, clean heating, energy storage, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and demand-side management. OVERVIEW: Small Business Energy Fund…

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Infrastructure Bank awards $12 Million in Action Grants to 19 Communities

New England Real Estate Journal — On January 25th, Infrastructure Bank joined with Governor Dan McKee and Mayor Xaykham Khamsyvoravong to award $12 million in Municipal Resilience Program Action Grants to 20 projects in 19 communities across Rhode Island. For this round of MRP Action Grants, the Infrastructure Bank received 41 proposals from 30 communities,…

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Bristol Gets Grant to Plant Trees in Effort to Boost Climate Resilience

East Bay RI — The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank has awarded 20 individual “Action Grants” totaling $12 million, earmarked for Municipal Resilience Projects (MRPs), and Bristol will be receiving $113,225 of that. The funds are part of the 2022 voter-approved Green Bond, which will allow cities and towns to implement resilience projects to address the…

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R.I. awards $12 million in action grants to local green infrastructure projects

Brown Daily Herald — Rhode Island will allocate $12 million in grants to support climate resiliency projects in 19 communities in the Municipal Resilience Program, according to a Jan. 25 press release from Governor Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank.  Funding for these grants comes from the 2022 Green Bond, which “directs $16 million to the MRP…

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