As part of his anti-climate action campaign, the Governor has asserted that Vermont’s climate policies are recklessly driving up costs for Vermonters. This couldn’t be farther from the truth for Vermont’s 100% Renewable Energy Standard (RES). The update to the RES...

On June 17th the Vermont General Assembly overrode Governor Phil’s Scott’s veto to enact H.289 modernizing Vermont’s Renewable Energy Standard requiring all Vermont utilities to deliver 100% renewable electricity by 2035 at the latest. This makes Vermont just the...

From 18th-century mills to current hydroelectric facilities, hydropower has been a valuable resource throughout Vermont’s history. Today, hydro is an important source of carbon-free electricity, accounting for nearly 50% of the power that we generate in our state....

Net metering has been Vermont’s most popular and effective program for developing in-state renewable energy. It is responsible for the deployment of three-quarters of the solar capacity in our state. The program works by letting Vermonters with solar at their homes...

After a year of record-breakingly expensive winter storms and devastating flooding that crystallized just how much Vermont is already suffering from the climate crisis, the Vermont House voted overwhelmingly in favor of updating the state’s Renewable Energy Standard....

Renewable Energy Vermont (REV), the trade association representing Vermont’s renewable energy industry, applauds the U.S. Department of Energy’s announcement that National Grid’s Twin States Clean Energy Link was selected as one of three projects nationwide to receive...

It’s 2023 and the question is no longer “is climate change here” but “what is Vermont going to do to stop it?” A proven way for Vermont to reduce our climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions is to direct our utilities to stop purchasing electricity generated by...

Vermont has a plan to combat climate change – accelerate our transition to electric vehicles, switch our heating and cooling systems to electric heat pumps, and power it all with electricity that is increasingly green and renewable. There is a lot to like about the...

Incredibly and finally, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has begun the shift to a clean energy America. For the first time ever, the massive resources of the U.S. Government will be mobilized to move our country off of climate change causing fossil fuels and onto...

Over the last decade or so while most of us weren’t looking, something very concerning has happened in Vermont: it has become easier to build commercial strip development like a Dollar General store in a rural town than to build renewable energy. Between 2006-2020, 37...

Vermont’s electric sector is estimated to contribute only 2% of our climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions- seemingly insignificant compared to the whopping 74% of emissions coming from our transportation sector and from the energy we use to heat and cool our...

Talk to anyone who has tried to bring renewable energy to Vermonters and they will tell you the same thing: despite our green reputation and the thousands of Vermonters who have asked for leadership to avoid the existential crisis climate change presents to humanity,...