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Town energy committees urge House to fund greenhouse-gas reporting, freeze net-metering cuts
Summary
Vermont town energy committee members told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on Feb. 18 that lawmakers should fund a statewide greenhouse-gas inventory, freeze recent net-metering rate cuts and back appliance and building-efficiency bills to help households and local solar businesses. Speakers cited local projects, missing data and climate-related damages as reasons for action.
Members of Vermont town energy committees urged the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on Feb. 18 to back a statewide greenhouse-gas reporting and inventory program, freeze reductions in net-metering compensation and advance appliance- and building-efficiency standards.
Stephanie Moffett Hines, chair of the Arlington Energy Committee, told lawmakers her committee built a carbon-tracking spreadsheet that compiles five years of municipal energy invoices and converts fuel and electricity use into carbon equivalents. "You can't truly manage unless you measure," she said, and she asked the Legislature to provide $500,000 to stand up a statewide reporting program so towns and the state…
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