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Mark Whitworth: The Wrong Prescription for Net Metering
The Washington Electric Cooperative recently requested permission to impose fees on its net metering members in order to assure that the net metering program would be fair to all Co-op members....
View ArticleMark Whitworth: Eolian–A History of Failure
Eolian Renewable Energy of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, recently announced that it was abandoning its Seneca Mountain Wind project in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Seneca joins unsuccessful Eolian wind...
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Analysis: Twenty Years of Lowell
Green Mountain Power claims that its complex of industrial wind turbines on Lowell Mountain prevents the emission of greenhouse gases. GMP claims that each megawatt of power that the turbines put on...
View ArticleCommentary: A Moral Response to Climate Change
Most Vermonters accept the scientific consensus that climate change is happening and that human activity is major contributor. Many Vermonters believe that climate change is a moral issue. Some...
View ArticlePress Release: Energize Vermont Commends Call to Investigate Green Mountain...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 15, 2014 Contact: Mark Whitworth 802.424.0540 Email: Mark@energizevermont.org Energize Vermont Commends Call to Investigate Green Mountain Power’s Deceptive...
View ArticleSad Truth: Fighting for Change Takes Money
Will you support us this year? This year in Vermont brought the threat of more big wind projects, a disruptive pipeline, acres of poorly sited solar, and a deeply broken PSB process. When will we gain...
View ArticleUpdate from the State House #2015-1: H. 40/S. 51 to RESET Renewable Targets
Bill calls for renewable portfolio standard, but fails to address Vermont’s destructive energy siting practices. A bill has been introduced in both the Vermont House (H.40) and Senate (the identical...
View ArticleUpdate from the State House #2015-2: RESET Costs Unknown, Siting Problems...
H.40 Will Repeal SPEED and Enact RESET In our previous update, we described the questions of legitimacy that surround Vermont’s SPEED program. These questions resulted in the creation of H.40, a House...
View ArticleVermont’s Energy Scofflaws
Scofflaw (noun) A violator who mocks or ridicules the law. Anybody who has ever objected to a “renewable” energy project in Vermont knows that the deck is stacked in favor of energy developers—that...
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Pete Antos-Ketcham Joins Energize Vermont as Executive Director
Antos-Ketcham Brings 22 Years of Natural Resource Management to the Statewide Non-profit Huntington, VT – Energize Vermont is pleased to announce that Pete Antos-Ketcham, formerly of the Green Mountain...
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Map of Vermont’s Energy Rebellion
Below is a map of towns in Vermont with experiences or concerns about renewable energy siting. Download map of Vermont’s Energy Rebellion (Please email additions and corrections to...
View ArticleShove It Down Their Throats
Vermont has adopted some ambitious energy goals. The state could have engaged its communities in achieving these goals, but it did not. Instead, it has turned things over to energy developers, many of...
View ArticleDegrading Our Defenses Against Climate Change
In the past few weeks, two of the architects of Governor Shumlin’s energy policies acknowledged that the policies will have no impact on climate change. They disclosed, in separate interviews, that the...
View ArticleBurlington Free Press: Hydropower Line Proposed
Reposted from the Burlington Free Press. By Terri Hallenbeck. October 31, 2013 By 2019, two 6-inch-wide cables would extend 150 miles from Quebec under Lake Champlain and across land to Ludlow,...
View ArticleThe Manchester Journal: Wind Forum Explores Concerns
Reposted from The Manchester Journal. By Brandon Canevari. November 25, 2013. TOWNSHEND – Tears welled up in Larry Lorusso’s eyes and his voice began to crack as he spoke about the environmental...
View ArticleVPR: Eden Residents Mixed On Wind Towers
Reposted from VPR. By Amy Kolb Noyes. December 5, 2013. The results of a survey taken by the Town of Eden are in and if one conclusion can be drawn, it’s that residents have mixed feelings about a...
View ArticleBurlington Free Press: Groups make new case in opposing Lowell wind turbines
Reposted from the Burlington Free Press. By Terri Hallenbeck. December 5, 2013. MONTPELIER — Nearly a year after the Lowell wind turbines began producing electricity, opponents were still fighting the...
View ArticleVPR: Vote Against Wind Project Raises Questions About Future Development
Reposted from VPR. By Charlotte Albright. January 15, 2014. A vote against a wind energy project proposed for Seneca Mountain, near Island Pond, is raising questions about the developer’s next steps....
View ArticlePress Release: Energize Vermont Names Mark Whitworth Executive Director
Snelling Steps Down, Whitworth to Continue Organization’s Growth RUTLAND, VT – Energize Vermont is pleased to announce Mark Whitworth has been named its new Executive Director. Whitworth succeeds Lukas...
View ArticlePress Release: Energize Vermont Responds to Vermont Supreme Court Decision on...
Decision Has Significant Impacts On Future of All Development in Vermont RUTLAND, VT – Non-profit energy advocacy group Energize Vermont, along with neighbors of the Lowell wind project, respond to the...
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