New England Grid > Rhode Island

Resources Market Infrastructure Policy

Resources: A measure of total energy production and consumption per capita

Market: The cost of consumption, measured in electricity prices and gasoline taxes

Infrastructure: Capacity to generate and refine energy sources; miles of pipelines

45th Resources
45th Market
50th Infrastructure

Rhode Island does not produce or refine petroleum, but the Port of Providence is a regional hub for receiving transportation and heating fuel products. A pipeline connects the port to central Massachusetts.

Nearly all in-state electricity is generated with natural gas, which is supplied by pipeline from Connecticut and New York. An increasing amount of gas originates in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale.

state-rhode-island

Production trillion btu

0
Oil
-0
Gas
0
Coal
0
Wind
0.00
Solar
0
Hydro
0
Biofuel
0
Nuclear

net energy Production trillion btu

-181
+0 Produced
181 Consumed

Consumption trillion btu

76
Oil
98
Gas
0
Coal
7
Renewable
0
Nuclear

Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014

RI
$0.51
USA
$0.46

Key Policies

  • Requires retail electricity providers to obtain 16% of power sold in the state from renewable resources by 2019.

  • Requires the statewide use of reformulated motor gasoline blended with ethanol to limit ozone formation.

Electricity net production, trillion btu

12.51¢
RI
8.81¢
USA