Rhode Island Industrial Assessment Center
The CCRI Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) provides free energy assessments to manufacturing companies.
Rhode Island Industrial Assessment Center
Our Mission
The Rhode Island Industrial Assessment Center (RI-IAC), based out of the Community
College of Rhode Island (CCRI), is a U.S. Department of Energy-funded Industrial Assessment Center. Our mission is to provide no-cost, no-obligation energy audits and consulting services
to small-to-medium-sized manufacturers and municipal wastewater treatment plants.
Through our services, we aim to assist manufacturers in saving energy, reducing wastewater
usage, minimizing industrial waste, reducing carbon footprint, adopting renewable
energy, and improving productivity. Our services are available to those qualified
manufacturers within 150 miles of the RI-IAC (Warwick, RI).
Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible for a free assessment from the RI-IAC, the company must meet the following requirements:
- The site must be less than 150 miles from CCRI-Warwick campus.
- The NAICS industry code must be between 31100-33999.
- The SIC industry code must be between 2000-3999.
- The annual sales of the business must be less than $250 million.
- The business must have less than 500 employees.
- The annual energy cost of the business must be between $100,000 and $3.5 million.
- The business should not have any in-house energy professionals.