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Advocates urge Vermont to update appliance-efficiency backstop and add new electric-motor standards
Summary
Witnesses supporting H 600 told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure committee that updating Vermont's federal-backstop date and adding recently finalized expanded-scope electric motor standards would protect consumers, cut electricity use and peak demand, and deliver millions in utility-bill savings for the state.
Representative Kathleen James convened the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure committee on April 16 to hear testimony on H 600, a bill to update Vermont's appliance-efficiency "backstop" date and preserve federal efficiency standards if those rules are removed at the federal level.
Brooke Lockwood, state policy associate at the Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP), told the committee ASAP supports H 600 and asked that the bill be amended to include recently developed standards for expanded-scope electric motors (ESEMs). "Without federal appliance standards in place, the average Vermont household would have spent an additional $6,900 on utility bills over the last 10 years," Lockwood said, citing ASAP's analysis. She added that Vermont businesses would have paid an additional $700,000,000 in the same period and that electricity consumption statewide would have been about 17% higher.
Lockwood and Joanna Mauer, ASAP's…
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