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Vermont Gas scales back Hinesburg geothermal network after DOE grant pause
Summary
Vermont Gas said a Department of Energy grant award intended to fund a single thermal energy network at a Hinesburg affordable housing project was paused after recent federal administrative changes, forcing the developer and utility to redesign the project into separate loops and reducing the scope of the original plan.
Vermont Gas told the House committee that a DOE-funded project to test a community-scale geothermal/thermal energy network for affordable housing in Hinesburg had been downsized after a federal grant pause earlier this year.
Dylan Giamatiza, director of public affairs for Vermont Gas, described a multi-stage process: the utility and its development partner (Chittenden County Housing Trust) completed community engagement and received an initial award; a second-phase grant, described by Giamatiza as…
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