Agency of Agriculture: Vermont tracks locations of licensed fuel meters and public EV chargers but not consumption

Representative Kathleen James, chair of the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee, opened a Feb. 26 hearing saying the panel was “here to give you thoughts on H 125,” and asked the Agency of Agriculture to describe what data it holds on fuel- and electricity-dispensing devices.

Steve Collier, deputy counsel for the Agency of Agriculture, told the committee the agency inspects and licenses commercial weights-and-measures devices used in sales to the public and keeps location and licensing records for those devices, but that its data do not show how much fuel or electricity is actually consumed. “We have the data. Again, it's no volume. It doesn't tell you anything about how much consumption. It's just a number,” Collier said.

The agency described three device classes relevant to the bill lawmakers are considering: retail gasoline pumps (which the agency inspects and licenses by individual meters), meters on fuel-delivery trucks (each delivery meter on a truck is licensed…