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Witness warns single‑plant change could reopen years of Bennington solar litigation
Summary
Annette Smith, executive director of Reminders for a Clean Environment, told the Senate Finance committee that H.0710’s change to the 'single plant' definition could reopen lengthy litigation tied to two adjacent Apple Hill solar projects in Bennington and urged delaying the change until pending cases are resolved.
Annette Smith, executive director of Reminders for a Clean Environment, told the Senate Finance Committee on July 10 that H.0710 — a bill that would revise the definition of a 'single plant' for electricity‑generating facilities — risks reopening a long‑running legal dispute over two adjacent solar projects on Apple Hill in Bennington.
Smith said the two projects are currently the subject of repeated litigation and regulatory review, with a tangled history of Public Utility Commission (PUC) rulings and appeals to the Vermont Supreme Court. She described a sequence in which one project’s standard‑offer contract was denied and another approved, leading to litigation over whether adjacent arrays that use different roads and interconnection…
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