Rhode Island Businesses Team Up to Harness the Swift Power of Wind
posted February 9, 2010 in Resident News

              Photo Courtesy of ecoRI

Three small Rhode Island businesses have joined forces to become players in the emerging alternative energy field.

Winthrop Solutions LLC, a financing firm in East Providence, CriSM LLC, a facilities management company in Johnston, and Pro-Paint Plus, a full-service contractor in North Kingstown, have partnered to bring a roof-mounted wind turbine, the SWIFT Wind Turbine, to the Ocean State.

Pro-Paint Plus, which is based in the Quonset Business Park, is the only licensed dealer of the small turbine in Rhode Island. Thomas Marsocci, who owns the business with his wife, Carol, said the company has introduced the turbine to the permitting and zoning agencies in six high-wind communities — North Kingstown, South Kingstown, Jamestown, Newport, East Greenwich and Charlestown...

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