BCX Energy Blog

Many expenses come along with owning a home. One of the most costly of them is electricity. Across the United States, the average person spends 7% of their income on energy bills. 

Rhode Island residents have the fifth highest electricity bills in the country. We pay an average of 19 cents per kilowatt-hour, which almost 50% higher than the national average.

To avoid spending large amounts of money on electricity, try these three tips.

The RI Renewable Energy Growth Program is a collaboration between the Rhode Island Distributed Energy Board and National Grid. This effort aims to encourage residents to use grid-connected renewable solar energy within the state. It is an incentive program that helps homeowners pay standard pricing to install residential and non-residential profitable solar arrays. The state has set a goal of adding 160 megawatts of renewable Rhode Island solar energy in the next five years.

Environmental agencies are serious about curbing air pollution from industrial sources. And so are we! We help our industrial source customers demonstrate air emissions compliance, so they can maintain their operating permits and focus on what they do best.

Our air quality business unit has seen a range of unique challenges.

Asian countries are getting serious about combating air pollutants. We’re excited to announce that BCX's Air Quality Group continues to make strides alongside facilities and government agencies in Vietnam, Qatar, and the Philippines.

We recently spent six weeks traversing in Asia actively testing air quality and developing solutions to fight their escalating global air quality challenges. During our trips, we worked with clients on existing engineering and audit contracts:

As an environmental and manufacturing engineer, sound control and hearing protection has been a passion of mine for years. In fact, I even study it closely outside of my day gig (I'm a drummer)! 

Excessive industrial noise can have harmful long-term effects on workers. “Industrial noise” refers to sound levels that exceed the reasonable range in the industrial work environment.