The Block Island Utility District, doing business as the Block Island Power Company, is the proud owner of a brand-new bucket truck, and an electric one at that.
A recent call for help from the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association (NRECA) was made asking the New England co-op managers if they could loan Isle au Haut Electric Cooperative
Perhaps not the swankiest thing to do on a hot summer Saturday afternoon but with the enticement of ice cream, swag, and a talk by Nobel Prize winner Michael Oppenheimer, the Block Island Utility District’s Annual meeting on Saturday was well.
“This topic is so complicated that most people don’t understand it enough to comment on it,” said resident and ratepayer David Lewis at the meeting of the Block Island Utility District on July 28. Lewis was speaking about net-metering, the mechanism.