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CCRI launches green energy program
Offering renewable-energy course this fall
Updated: Tuesday, 13 Jul 2010, 5:06 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 13 Jul 2010, 5:06 PM EDT
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - The Community College of Rhode Island is scheduled to offer a renewable-energy course this fall that officials say is the first step toward developing programs to prepare students for the "greening" of the electrical power sector.
The renewable energy class will explore the relationships among sources of sustainable energy -- thermal, biomass, solar, wind and nuclear -- and compare them with fossil fuels.
The class, boosted by a $745,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, will be taught by faculty from the physics, oceanography and bioengineering departments.
Officials tell The Providence Journal that the program will help graduates get well-paying jobs in the green energy-utility fields.
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