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House approves change to Vermont’s "single plant" definition to ease community solar expansion
Summary
The Vermont House amended and approved H 7 10 to adopt a new definition of "single plant" for electricity generating facilities, allowing adjacent renewable facilities with separate points of interconnection to be treated separately; the change takes effect July 1, 2026.
The Vermont House on Wednesday amended and approved H 7 10, a bill that replaces the Public Utilities Commission’s "single plant" definition to allow adjacent renewable electricity facilities to be counted separately if they have distinct points of interconnection.
Representative Kleppner (Burlington), speaking for the House Committee on Energy and Digital Infrastructure, said the existing PUC rule prevented communities from expanding solar at sites they had already chosen by treating adjacent arrays that shared infrastructure as one facility. The committee reported the bill out on…
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