Northeastern Vermont Development Association
Regional Planning & Economic Development within the Northeast Kingdom
ENERGY UPDATE May 2024
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Make your Go Electric Plan!
May 15, 3pm (on-line)
The transition to safer, extra environment friendly energy applied sciences is a course of, not a undertaking. Whether you are able to make the swap now or planning for the long run, on this 30-minute webinar, you may discover ways to create an electrification plan to improve your own home for larger vitality effectivity, diminished price, extra consolation and security. See additionally *NEW* Vermont-specific “incentive calculator” offering households with a personalised listing of the numerous federal, state, and utility rebates and presents they’ll use for climate-friendly clear applied sciences and money-saving effectivity enhancements.
Public Comment on Key Principles of Community Engagement and Environmental Justice
May 17 and 22 (in particular person and on-line)
Please present suggestions on one among these occasions!
The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) is internet hosting two occasions to obtain suggestions on the proposed Core Principles of Community Engagement (the Principles) underneath the Vermont Environmental Justice Law. The Principles will information the event of neighborhood engagement plans by the Agencies of Natural Resources, Transportation, Commerce and Community Development, Agriculture, and Education; the Public Utility Commission; the Natural Resources Board; and the Departments of Health, Public Safety, and Public Service.
Friday, May 17 4-5 pm
Personal location: Fletcher Free Library 234 College Street, Burlington, VT 05401
Join the assembly
Speech ID: 291 649 690 748
Passcode: 4Rgcxb
Dial-in by cellphone
+1 802-828-7667,,138349442#
Wednesday, May 22 12-1 pm
Virtual Location:
Microsoft Teams
Join the assembly
Speech ID: 269 178 141 110
Passcode: LYEx6A
Dial-in by cellphone
+1 802-828-7667,,299446378#
Submit Feedback Online by June 14
Communities Taking Charge Accelerator
May 20 – Concept Papers Due
The Department of Energy (DOE) has made obtainable $54 million in new federal funding for initiatives that increasing entry to e-mobility locally and supply clear, dependable vitality. The funding will drive innovation in equitable clear transportation and is in step with methods detailed within the US National Blueprint for Decarbonization of Transportation. This program will make strategic investments on the native degree that handle key boundaries to increasing entry to electrical mobility choices for people with no house funds; accelerating the transition to electrified fleets; and mature implementation of managed billing programs to reduce impacts and optimize grid utilization. Topical options embody:
- Solving for Homeless Charging: Expanding Charging Access for Privately Owned E-Mobility
- Expanding E-Mobility Solutions by Electrified Micro, Light and Medium-Duty Fleets
- Managed Billing for Clean Reliable Energy
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Home Energy Rebate Program – $58M for Vermont
June 4, 6-7:30pm (on-line)
The Vermont Department of Public Service is holding a digital public assembly to debate its upcoming software to the Department of Energy underneath the Home Energy Rebate program. This assembly will present an summary of the Department’s conceptual proposals for deploying $58 million in federal funding that Vermont hopes to obtain and solicit enter on this system’s design. The $8.8 billion Home Energy Rebate The program is allowed underneath the Inflation Reduction Act and is run by the Department of Energy.
Your participation and suggestions is inspired to tell how these funds can greatest serve Vermonters by supporting weatherization and electrification initiatives. This will even be a possibility to ask the Department about Home Energy Rebate program. Questions? Please contact Ian Lund ([email protected])
or Melissa Bailey ([email protected]) instantly.
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Clean Heat Standard – PUC Feedback Request
June 6, 6-7:30 pm
the Clean Heat Standard can have an effect on what you pay to warmth your own home or enterprise. The Vermont Partnership for Fairness & Diversity is working with the Vermont Public Utility Commission (PUC) to satisfy their obligation underneath Act 18 of 2023 to develop a Clean Heat Standard rule that shall be offered to the Vermont General Assembly. The anticipated results of their work is new alternatives so that you can save in your heating prices and scale back greenhouse fuel emissions. Your ideas will inform the PUC as they develop the brand new Clean Heat Standard. This potential Standard will function a crucial a part of Vermont’s effort to fight local weather change and meet the objectives of the Global Warming Solution Act.
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Solar for All of Vermont!
Over $62 million awarded
The Vermont Department of Public Service (PSD) is happy to announce an award of $62.45 million for Solar for All Vermont (SAV), which is able to permit low-income Vermonters to entry the advantages of solar energy. This award is a part of the historic $7 billion Solar For All Competition (SFA), created underneath President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to decrease vitality prices for households, create jobs, promote justice on the setting and remedy the local weather disaster. Solar For All Vermont will permit certified low-income households to profit from clear distributed vitality. The program seeks to supply three distinct choices to Vermonters:
- Residential photo voltaic installations for owners
- Opportunities for membership in a neighborhood photo voltaic undertaking
- Benefits for residents of inexpensive housing
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May thirty first Deadline for $4,000 MERP Mini-Grant!!
Guaranteed, Non-Competitive $4K!
the Municipal Energy Resilience Program (MERP) has an schooling and outreach grant designed to scale back the resident’s vitality burden and construct capability for vitality sustainability within the city. The greatest in each neighborhood is completely different! See MERP Mini-Grants in Action at NEK->
The $4,000 will also be used to:
- Seed an vitality committee
- Send mails to properties about weatherization packages and rebates
- Hire a guide for grant writing
- Hire a photo voltaic contractor
- Funding of ADA assessments for municipal buildings
If your neighborhood would not have already got one, remember to get this $4K grant for native schooling, outreach, and capability constructing. Contact Carter Finegan, NVDA MERP Coordinator, for help/Q&A.
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VECAN Spring Summit
June 1, 9a-2pm, South Royalton
Join Energy Committees from throughout the state for the 2024 annual, in particular person VECAN Spring Summit. Reconnect, collaborate and share the dialog as we work to advertise simply and daring local weather motion – Register right now! Share your agenda concepts right here.
Legislative Roundup 2024
June 28, 10-11:30am (on-line)
This VCLN workshop will convey collectively voices from Admin, legislature, and advocacy teams to share key highlights from the 2024 session and the way your neighborhood can join with potential alternatives that will come up sooner or later. yr.
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