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Efficiency Vermont presents energy-burden findings to committee; report flags Northeast Kingdom as highest-burden region
Summary
Business in Vermont and Efficiency Vermont staff briefed the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on Feb. 6 on the 2023 energy-burden report, which uses household electric, thermal and transportation spending and local median income to map where Vermonters are most financially strained by energy costs.
Business in Vermont and Efficiency Vermont staff briefed the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on Feb. 6 on a third iteration of the state’s energy-burden report and interactive maps, which analyze household energy spending relative to income.
Kelly Lucci, co‑author of the report and an Efficiency Vermont staffer, told the committee the project measures household energy spending (electric, thermal and transportation) relative to household income. Unlike many state studies, Efficiency Vermont includes transportation energy in its combined burden metric because Vermont’s rural travel patterns make transportation a significant household energy cost.
Key findings presented to the committee included:
- Town- and census‑block‑level variation. The presenters showed maps indicating the Northeast Kingdom contains most towns with total energy burden greater than 15 percent of…
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