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Representative pitches energy storage mapping, cost‑sharing for grid upgrades and renewed weatherization workforce
Summary
Representative Jim Maslin asked the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on Feb. 27 to map energy storage and flexible load resources, allow targeted socialization of distribution upgrade costs and expand weatherization workforce support.
Representative Jim Maslin presented three related proposals to the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on Feb. 27 focused on energy storage, distribution upgrades and home weatherization.
Maslin said one bill would direct electric distribution utilities and the Public Utility Commission (PUC) to submit an electric system map showing where energy storage and flexible load management facilities would deliver the greatest reliability, affordability and resilience benefits. That report, he said, would inform the Clean Energy Development Board when awarding grants. “Electric energy storage has been around in Vermont for a period of time, and it's becoming more prescient,”…
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