We are excited to announce the first event in our Leveraging Change Speaker Series coming up next Thursday, November 15th at Down Home Kitchen in Montpelier. Read on for more details about this exciting kickoff event or just register here
EAN Member Energy Futures Group recently released a paper on the Statewide Total Energy Program (STEP), or Tier 3. It’s a valuable overview of a key Vermont energy policy, and contains important analysis of the impacts of this program on electric rates and emissions. If you haven’t already taken a look,
you can find the paper at EFG’s website.
Total Energy News – November 2018
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Your Update on Vermont and National Energy News
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Hi there,
We are excited to announce the first event in our Leveraging Change Speaker Series coming up next Thursday,
November 15th at Down Home Kitchen in Montpelier. Read on for more details about this exciting kickoff event or just
register here! EAN Member Energy Futures Group recently released a paper on the Statewide Total Energy Program (STEP), or Tier 3. It’s a valuable overview of a key Vermont energy policy, and contains important analysis of the impacts of this program on electric rates and emissions. If you haven’t already taken a look,
you can find the paper at EFG’s website.Thanks,
The EAN Team
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Canada & Carbon Pricing
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently made headlines by instituting a nationwide carbon price, with revenues going almost entirely back to citizens in the form of direct rebates, or dividends. This will impact all of the provinces who don’t already have an economy wide emissions policy.
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New Polling on Climate and Renewable Energy
New polling from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication shows that the majority of Americans think more clean energy (and research about clean energy) is good, and would support a carbon tax if it reduced other taxes.
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Driving Electric
New analysis from Bloomberg shows that even if your electric car is completely charged on coal fired electricity, it still has a smaller carbon footprint than a gas fired engine, given the higher levels of efficiency.
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Living in Vermont, we spend a lot of time getting from Point A to Point B. How we do that matters. The worst choice, from an emissions standpoint, is driving alone in a fossil fueled car. At the other end of the spectrum is making that trip in an electric vehicle (particularly when it’s powered by our increasingly renewable electric supply).
Best of all? Take a bike!
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EAN is launching our
Leveraging Change Speaker Series with a Conversation about the Transportation & Climate Initiative with Justin Johnson and Mary Sprayregen.
Learn more and RSVP here. When: Thursday, November 15th, 4-6pm
Where: Down Home Kitchen, 100 Main St, Montpelier, VT
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Member Spotlight
Karen Horn, Vermont League of Cities and Towns
VLCT is a membership association serving all Vermont municipalities to strengthen local government. As energy policy and climate adaptation become more important in local planning efforts, VLCT provides a wide range of tools, technical assistance, and ways to navigate the most useful energy planning and assessment resources. Today, many towns across Vermont are using the Energy Dashboard to track their progress.
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The Vermont Total Energy Ticker
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Emissions
Following the release of the sobering Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Vermonters shared their perspective on what Vermont is doing to reduce emissions on Vermont Edition.
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Transportation
Vermont’s Attorney General, TJ Donovan, has joined with other states to oppose the Trump Administration’s rollback of the Federal vehicle fuel efficiency standards.
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Electric
The permitting process for a single wind turbine in the far Northeastern corner of Vermont has passed a milestone, but many steps remain before the turbine would be built.
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Have an upcoming event or news story to share? Email us at info@eanvt.org.
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