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Committee hears administration, data groups on H.125 reporting on Vermont's energy transition
Summary
Agency of Natural Resources and Energy Action Network told the House Energy Committee existing datasets can track fuel sales and clean-energy uptake but warned many measures are lagging; officials and lawmakers agreed to scope a first inventory and recommendations for leading indicators.
Montpelier, Vt. — The House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee heard testimony Feb. 18 on H.125, a bill directing state reporting on how Vermont's energy transition is affecting residents and businesses. Secretary Julie Moore of the Agency of Natural Resources told the committee ANR can contribute existing datasets but urged the group to pair those with analysis that produces leading indicators rather than only lagging metrics.
"I wanna start by honoring what I anticipate or intuit to be the intention of the bill, which is to look at indicators of how the energy transition is actually landing with Vermonters," said Julie Moore, secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources. "I think when we get down into the specifics, ANR has some potentially relevant datasets to this work."
The bill asks for inventory and reporting about sellers of fuels, fuel volumes, and related economic impacts. Jared Duvall, executive director of the nonprofit Energy Action Network and a member of the Vermont Climate Council, demonstrated EAN's Vermont Energy Dashboard and said several key datasets already exist and can be combined to provide a comprehensive picture of the transition.
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