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Efficiency Vermont tells committee it will end one pilot, keep low-income fuel-switch work and supports Burlington Electric carve-out
Summary
Efficiency Vermont interim director Peter Walkman told the House Energy committee the EV-dealer pilot will not continue but the Low-Income Fuel Switch program has been effective and will continue under regulated funding; he urged requiring new data centers to coordinate with energy-efficiency authorities and flagged funding risks for expanded code enforcement.
Peter Walkman, interim director of Efficiency Vermont, told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure committee on Feb. 24 that the agency will not pursue one of two Energy Efficiency Modernization Act pilot programs for the next performance period but will continue the other.
“We are very supportive of Burlington continuing to do that,” Walkman said, referring to a carve-out for Burlington Electric Department in the committee’s draft bill. He summarized the pilot’s two iterations — a three-year pilot launched in 2020 and a second three-year extension ending this year — and described two programs that ran under the pilot: a dealer-support program for electric-vehicle (EV) dealerships and a Low-Income Fuel Switch program.
Walkman said federal tax credits winding down and weakening state incentives left the EV-dealer support program less necessary. “The market is a little quieter than it was,” he said, and Efficiency Vermont “is not pursuing that…
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