Committee hears H.125 data-reporting bill; agencies say device-license data is available but analysis will take work

The Vermont Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Energy on April 23 took testimony on H.125, a bill that would require the state to compile and report data on fuels and electric-vehicle charging as part of the energy transition.

The bill, sponsored in the Senate as H.125, would direct the Secretary of Natural Resources to collect and report specified data on commercial measuring devices, fuel sales and charging equipment. The committee heard that some of the requested information — annual license lists for devices such as gas pumps and public electric vehicle supply equipment — is already in agency databases, but that assembling five-year histories and producing new analysis would be more work.

Steve Collier, a representative of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets (AAFM), told the committee that the AAFM’s Weights and Measures program inspects and annually licenses commercial weighing and measuring devices used in retail sales. “When they buy a gallon of gas, are getting a gallon…