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Witness urges change to Vermont's single-plant rule in S.50 to lower costs, enable collocation
Summary
A witness identifying herself as the climate and energy program director for a statewide environmental advocacy organization told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee that amending the single-plant definition in S.50 for projects outside net metering and the standard-offer program could lower costs and enable efficient collocation of solar facilities.
A witness identifying herself as the climate and energy program director for a statewide environmental consumer-protection organization told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on April 9 that S.50 could be improved by changing Vermont's "single plant" definition for certain renewable projects.
The witness explained that small renewable projects in Vermont are currently developed through three principal pathways: net metering (projects up to 500 kilowatts), the standard-offer program (projects up to 2.2 megawatts), and utility power-purchase agreements or utility-owned projects. She said the single-plant definition was added in the 2009 law that created the standard-offer to prevent developers from splitting larger projects to gain program benefits, and that that test made sense when the standard-offer and net-metering programs together supplied most of the state's sub-5-megawatt capacity.
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