2024 Jeffrey Shields Innovation in School Business Operations Award Recipient

The Rhode Island Hydro Power Alliance Members, with leadership from La Salle Academy, came together to develop the Remote Net Metering Credit Consortium, a partnership of seven independent schools and an arts education center to create a hydroelectric power consortium. All parties entered into a 20-year remote net metering agreement, taking advantage of Rhode Island’s Clean Energy Grant Incentive Program. This initiative has already saved member schools a combined $390,000 since the program began producing credits in March 2022. Participating schools include La Salle Academy, the Gordon School, St. Andrew’s School, Wheeler School, The Grace School, Lincoln School and Highlander Charter School, as well as The Steel Yard, a nonprofit industrial art center.