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Sheldon Whitehouse: “In my state of Rhode Island, we tried to bring clean energy…”

Featuring: Sheldon Whitehouse, Democratic | U.S. Senate Rhode Island

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Whitehouse Introduces Resolution To Acknowledge Climate Change Is Real–Then Ron Johnson Blocks It

Published | Video Starts at 21:18

Well, one good thing to do about it would be to bring more clean energy onto the grid. And that doesn't cost trillions. Over time, that will save trillions. Just In my state of Rhode Island, we tried to bring clean energy onto our grid at a contract price of $0.09 per kilowatt hour from an offshore wind farm. Our average grid price is 18 cents per kilowatt hour. So the offshore wind would literally be half price energy for our grid. And the Trump administration tried twice, illegally to stop it. (21:18–21:38)

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Asserts that Rhode Island attempted to contract offshore wind energy at half the average grid price.

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