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Rhode Island adds $11.5M heat pump pilot for two- to four-unit buildings
Rhode Island's Office of Energy Resources announced an $11.5 million heat pump pilot on November 2, 2026 for low- and moderate-income households in two- to four-unit buildings, with incentives up to $16,000 per unit. Germany's Bundesnetzagentur awarded 288 MW in its October 1 rooftop solar tender at an average 9.67 ct/kWh, Octopus Energy signed a home battery memorandum of understanding with CATL and Ampace, and ECA Power's 7.4 MWdc community solar project near Rockford, Illinois, is delivering power.
Revolution Wind reaches full operation as Ørsted books US impairments
Ørsted said on November 5, 2026 that Revolution Wind, the 704 MW offshore wind farm off Rhode Island that Interior ordered halted in August and December 2025, was fully commissioned in October. Its third quarter ended in a DKK 0.7 billion loss after DKK 3.4 billion of US impairments, which Ørsted attributes to higher long-dated US interest rates, while nine-month EBITDA excluding new partnerships and cancellation fees rose 19%.
Interior asks to reopen New England Wind approval, leaving it in force
Federal lawyers asked a judge on October 20, 2026 to remand Interior's 2024 approval of Avangrid's New England Wind plan off Massachusetts without vacatur, so Interior can decide it again. It follows an October 9 remand request for Revolution Wind, whose construction the government's brief calls complete, and an October 13 request for Maryland's US Wind.
Rhode Island launches $32 million HOMES heat pump rebate for multifamily
The Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources said on September 23, 2026 that it launched the $32 million federal Home Owner Managing Energy Savings (HOMES) program, approved by DOE, to fund heat pump installations in income-eligible multifamily buildings of five or more units at up to $16,000 per housing unit; OER calls Rhode Island the first New England state to launch HOMES. The program page requires modeled energy savings of at least 20 percent and at least half of units occupied by households under 80 percent of area median income.
