Road work and utility maintenance is ramping up throughout the state, and Essex will experience some of it this week.
Starting Monday, May 3, Vermont Electric Power Company will be replacing an electric transmission utility pole next to VT Route 15 â Pearl Street â as part of its ongoing Essex-Milton transmission line maintenance work. Work will last through May and create traffic pattern changes in the stretch between Susie Wilson Road and the Champlain Valley Exposition fairgrounds.
A section of the exiting Route 15 median will be removed to create a temporary eastbound lane of travel around the work site. After completion of the pole replacement, the median will be restored so the normal traffic pattern can resume. For more information, visit velco.com/pearlstreet.
Plan Designed to Protect Manufacturing Jobs in Vermont and Provide Greater Certainty to GMP Customers and GlobalFoundries
Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power (GMP) today announced an agreement with GlobalFoundries (GF) to support its petition to the Public Utility Commission to become a self-managed utility at its Essex manufacturing site starting in 2023. If approved, GF would directly manage its own transmission connections, distribution system, and power supply costs according to its own goals, needs and operational standards. The agreement is aimed at strengthening GF’s position in Vermont with its nearly 2,200 manufacturing jobs, while also helping to protect all other GMP customers from rising costs. The plan is subject to regulatory review and approval.
Rob Donnelly John Ovitt has a sticky problem. The Franklin Foods cream cheese plant he runs in Enosburg Falls makes more wastewater than the tiny village treatment plant can handle. Eric Fitch has an innovative solution. The founder and CEO of New Hampshire-based renewable power company PurposeEnergy could transform that foul cheese water into a valued commodity: renewable electricity. Their partnership seemed like a perfect match until the state s energy regulators recently raised an inconvenient truth: The power grid in the northern third of Vermont already has more renewable energy than it can handle. Big wind and solar projects developed in recent years in rural parts of the region generate far more power than businesses and residents there consume. The surplus electricity is exported to more densely populated parts of the state over older transmission lines tha
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The Mountain Times
By Peg Bolgioni
In March 2020 at height of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies like Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO) were scrambling to have the majority of their employees work remotely. They had to be in a safe environment but still needed to remain connected to one another, so adjustments had to be made. Face-to-face meetings ceased and video conferencing platforms like Zoom became the norm.
Now, almost a year later, most meetings are still held via Zoom. The Mountain Times followed up with VELCO to see how their employees have adapted. Has it been an easy transition, or fraught with challenges? How have the employees adapted to those changes in the workplace?