Vermont's most ambitious renewable energy bill yet

October 25, 2009

In the spring of 2009, VPIRG played an instrumental role in passing H. 446, Vermont’s most ambitious renewable energy bill to date. This bill puts Vermont on the map as a leader in the renewable energy revolution. It is the first statewide program in the nation establishing a fixed, fair rate for small scale renewable energy generation, allowing farms, business owners, and municipalities to be better positioned to install solar, wind, small hydro, farm methane or combined heat and power projects. A standard offer provides financial certainty to developers who build the renewable energy projects that Vermonters want, thereby jumpstarting construction of up to 50 megawatts of clean, renewable power.