Over 150 people packed Tinmouth’s Community Hall
last night to hear about an industrial sized wind farm that’s being proposed in
their community. The size and scope of the
$160 million project have many worried.
The owners of Vermont Yankee have decided not to offer Vermont utilities a new deal on power.
Yankee faced a year-end deadline to come up with a new power contract. But the owners of the nuclear plant said the deal that’s already in place is good enough for now.
With fuel prices up, many
Vermonters are turning to wood heat. But as VPR’s
Nina Keck reports, that’s causing a significant number of power outages due to
careless tree cutting near power lines.
The Vermont Public
Service Board has approved a new system of setting rates for the state’s
largest power company that will allow it to recover what it pays for power at
wholesale prices more quickly. The system also could help promote energy
conservation.
About 11,500
Vermont homes and businesses lost power after gusty winds – the remnants of
Hurricane Ike – blew through New England, downing trees and power lines.