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REV2025 Request for Proposals: Panels, Topics, and Speakers
REV is seeking panel, speaker, and topic proposals for the 2025 REV Conference breakout sessions. You do not need to have a complete panel with confirmed speakers to apply. It is more...
What is Community Solar, what is Renewable Energy for Communities, and what does it have to with nuclear power?
Community Solar Community solar is broadly popular and generally refers to solar projects where the power is used by local residents, small businesses, and municipal entities who own or...
More Efficient Solar Siting: Updating Vermont’s “Single Plant” Definition
The Net-Metering Program, the Standard Offer Program, and Tier II of Vermont’s Renewable Energy Standard all include facility size restrictions as part of the eligibility requirements. To...
Climate Rollback Bills Omit Detrimental Changes to Net Metering
In January, the Public Service Department released its “Act 179 Report,” which outlined a series of recommendations that threatened to undermine the deployment of renewable energy in...
The First Annual Electrify Vermont Summit is Coming to Burlington
The first annual Electrify Vermont Summit, presented by REV, University of Vermont, and Burlington Electric Department, will be held on April 21 as part of UVM’s Research Week. The event...
REV Presentation at RE+ Northeast: Vermont Briefing
REV was fortunate to be invited to give the Vermont Briefing at the annual RE+ Northeast conference on February 12th. Check out our (mostly good news) presentation of on the implementation...
REV’s 2024 Regulatory Review
The past year saw the PUC update the net metering compensation and adopt revisions to three rules (5.100 – Net-Metering, 5.400 – Section 248 CPGs, 5.500 – Interconnection). REV was an...
REV’s 2025 Legislative Priorities
REV's 2025 legislative priorities lay the foundation to cost-effectively reach the increased renewable energy requirements in Vermont's new landmark 100% Renewable Energy Standard. REV...
Public Service Department AGAIN tries to end net metering – Updated
Update: In a win for rooftop and backyard solar, the Department's recommendation to change the net metering compensation structure was not included in S.110 and H.289, the two bills built...
REV2024 Recap: Environmentally Achievable 100% Renewables by 2035
Getting to 100% renewable electricity will require a significant expansion in renewable generation as well as support infrastructure such as transmission and energy storage. Eddie Duncan...
REV2024 Recap: Review of New PUC Rules 5.100, 5.400, 5.500, and 2.100
In 2023 and 2024, the Public Utility Commission updated four key rules governing renewable energy permitting in Vermont. The major takeaway from the REV2024 panel Review of New PUC rules...
REV 2025 Legislative Agenda: Establish an Equal Process for the Environmental Review of Distribution Upgrades
Historically, Vermont utilities have managed the process of environmental assessment and permitting for upgrades to existing distribution infrastructure when new renewable energy projects...
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