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Wind turbine rises above Vergennes

Posted on January 9, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — The newest addition to the Vergennes landscape towers over the Northlands Job Corps campus and is capable of powering 20 homes.

On Dec. 30, Vermont contractors Engineers Construction and Encore Redevelopment finished installing a 121-foot-tall wind turbine on a knoll on the north end of the Northlands Job Corps campus.

The windmill, built in Barre by Northern Power Systems, will be owned and operated by Green Mountain Power, but the Vergennes job-training center will receive 10 percent of its power output.

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Monkton creates energy panel

Posted on December 8, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



MONKTON — The Monkton selectboard has created a town energy committee to explore energy efficiency programs, like the “Property Assessed Clean Energy” program, or PACE.

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Town gears up for energy savings

Posted on November 17, 2011 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury officials are working with Central Vermont Public Service Corp. (CVPS) and Efficiency Vermont to replace around 470 light fixtures throughout town with a more energy-efficient variety that could save the community around $20,000 per year on its electricity bill.

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Middlebury hydro plan to advance

Posted on November 3, 2011 |
By Christian Woodard



MIDDLEBURY — A family seeking to install a small-scale hydroelectric project at Middlebury’s Otter Creek falls has won permission to take advantage of a streamlined federal review of the plan and is looking for investors to help finance eventual construction.

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Utilities getting new customers ready for smart meters

Posted on October 20, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



ADDISON COUNTY — Next spring, Green Mountain Power (GMP) will look to install smart electric meters on the sides of all Vergennes homes and businesses. By the end of next year, GMP and fellow electricity provider Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS) will have installed the new devices at all participating homes and facilities across Addison County.

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Board gives solar farm a green light

Posted on October 13, 2011 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday unanimously agreed to lease an acre of town property to a nonprofit group to use to house a small solar farm for the next 25 years.

The lease was struck with a local group called “Acorn Energy One Solar LLC” for an acre of land located north and a little west of the Middlebury police station off Lucius Shaw Lane.

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State unveils new energy plan

Posted on September 29, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



MIDDLEBURY — “I believe there is no greater challenge and opportunity to Vermont and our world than the challenge to change the way we use and produce energy,” wrote Gov. Peter Shumlin in the first sentence of the Vermont Comprehensive Energy Plan draft.

When Shumlin appointed Elizabeth Miller to be commissioner of the Department of Public Service (DPS) early this year, she was charged with the task of overseeing the development and completion of a new comprehensive energy plan by the end of 2011 — the first update to the energy plan since 1998.

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GMP to seek approval for wind turbine at Northlands

Posted on September 22, 2011 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — Green Mountain Power has applied to the Vermont Public Service Board for permission to install a wind turbine on the northeast corner of the Northlands Job Corps campus, Vergennes City Manager Mel Hawley told aldermen on Sept. 13.

GMP will ask the PSB for a Certificate of Public Good for a turbine that will stand about 120 feet tall, Hawley said, with rotor blades about 65 feet long.

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Proposed New Haven solar farm clears another hurdle

Posted on August 18, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



NEW HAVEN — The Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) last week removed a roadblock for development of a solar energy farm off Route 7 in New Haven.

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Starksboro project tests feasibility of solar power

Posted on August 15, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



STARKSBORO — In October of 2010, the town of Starksboro took major steps to revamp its energy portfolio by installing 25 solar power arrays mounted on trackers on 1.5 acres of land adjacent to Robinson Elementary School.

From the outset, one of the main goals of this project was to net zero energy consumption for the school and town buildings. Put another way, town and school officials sought to produce as much energy using solar as they drew from the electric power grid in the course of a year.

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