PROVIDENCE — Gov. Donald L. Carcieri today announced that Rhode Island has sufficient wind capacity to meet his goal of deriving 15 percent of the state’s electricity from wind-power, and announced plans for a stakeholder group to determine where such facilities could be located. ‘To emphasize this goal, I am also announcing that this project will be known as ‘Energy Independence 1′,’ he said. ‘This new brand indicates that this is only the beginning of our efforts to reduce electricity prices and to wean our state off foreign energy.’ Carcieri earlier had commissioned a wind-power siting study, the results of which he cited in today’s announcement. ‘In January 2006, I created the [R.I] Office of Energy Resources and tasked it with finding a way to generate 15 percent of Rhode Island’s electricity from wind power,’ the governor recalled. ‘My goal was simple: I wanted to encourage Rhode Island’s energy independence through the use of a renewable source. ‘This study … makes clear for the first time that Rhode Island enjoys enough wind to achieve five times that amount of electricity generation.’ The Ocean State has nearly 100 square miles in which wind power is feasible, […]