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Providence heats with gas in buildings that were standing before the war: 45% of its 79,423 housing units are in two- to four-unit buildings and only 26% are single-family detached (Census ACS 2020-2024, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=060XX00US4400759000, checked 2026-10-19), 55% of those units were built before 1940 and just 8% in 2000 or later (Census ACS 2020-2024, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=060XX00US4400759000, checked 2026-10-19), and natural gas heats 70% of the 71,497 occupied homes, electricity 17%, heating oil 8% and propane 4% (Census ACS 2020-2024, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=060XX00US4400759000, checked 2026-10-19). A Providence quote therefore usually means one compact outdoor unit per unit of a three-decker on a gas boiler, a line set up the back of the house, and a weatherization check that a pre-war frame rarely passes on age. The carve changes fuel fast as it leaves the city. Pawtucket is a gas city too at 67% of 30,598 occupied homes with 41% of its 32,810 units in two- to four-family buildings (Census ACS 2020-2024, tables B25040 and B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=060XX00US4400754640, checked 2026-10-19), but in Cranston 63% of units are detached and 21% of occupied homes burn oil, and in Warwick 69% are detached with 20% on oil (Census ACS 2020-2024, tables B25024 and B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=060XX00US4400719180, checked 2026-10-19). Past the suburbs the pipe runs out: oil is the leading fuel in Scituate at 78% of occupied homes, Burrillville at 68%, Glocester at 67% and Foster at 61%, with gas under 10% in each (Census ACS 2020-2024, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=060XX00US4400764220, checked 2026-10-19), and those are the towns where a heat pump replaces an oil tank outright rather than sharing the work with a boiler. Two programs sit under every address on this door: the Rhode Island Energy per-ton rebate for its electric customers, and Clean Heat Rhode Island, the income-eligible state program that pays a share of the installed cost for homes now on gas, oil or propane; the town pages carry both with their terms, the source url and the date each was checked.
Wood-frame three-deckers in Federal Hill, Elmwood, and Olneyville were piped for a shared steam or oil boiler. A cold-climate ductless system per floor matches how those buildings are metered.
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