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Mayor Weinberger, Burlington Electric Department, VGS, UVM Medical Center, Ever-Green Energy Announce Another Milestone Step Forward for District Energy System
Vermont Business Magazine Mayor Miro Weinberger, Burlington Electric Department (BED), VGS, University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC), Ever-Green Energy, and the Burlington District Energy System (BURDES) Committee, a group of interested local citizens, today announced another milestone step forward to Phase 3 of an updated district energy system (DES) project.
Phase 3 marks the first time that the City, BED, VGS, and UVMMC have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI), in which they agree to a three- to six-month scope of work that will determine whether the DES project will advance to the final permitting, financing, and construction phases.
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Last year, at the conclusion of a public talk I gave in Dover about my work, a member of the audience raised her hand and asked me the secret of my success as Consumer Advocate.
Dodging the question of just how successful I ve truly been as the statutory representative of New Hampshire s residential utility ratepayers, I had a ready answer: Avoid all discussion of net metering.
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Everyone laughed.
Conceptually, net metering is rather ingenious and, perhaps, even cute. Put some solar panels on your roof, wire them up so they re connected to your house s electric system and see if, at times when you re producing more power than you re using, the meter spins backwards.
Wed, 12/23/2020 - 4:18pm tim
Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott today issued the following statement thanking the Public Service Department for its efforts to advocate for the reinstatement of the moratorium on household utility disconnects, and the Vermont Public Utility Commission (PUC) for approving the Department’s filing. The PUC order, announced Tuesday, reinstates the moratorium on involuntary disconnection on Vermont’s regulated utilities of electricity, telephone landlines and natural gas. The moratorium is in place until the end of March 2021.
“I want to thank Commissioner June Tierney and her team for filing with the PUC to prevent Vermonters from being disconnected from critical utility service due to financial hardship. As we head into winter while still facing a global pandemic and its economic impacts, we all need to look out for our neighbors and ensure we protect the most vulnerable. I’m proud that the state’s utility regulators have joined
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