standard offer

This report submitted to the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, and the House Committee on Energy and Technology as required by Act 53 of 2017,discusses the exemption and makes recommendations about how to address any issues arising from the exemption. The Commission has identified two significant concerns arising from the exemption. First, Section 8005a allows utilities to be exempt from the standard-offer program “regardless of whether the provider owned the energy's environmental attributes.” The second issue is that exemptions shift the cost of the standard-offer program from the customers of the exempt utility to customers of the participating utilities.

Press release announcing the Commission approval on July 20, 2018, of four contracts under Vermont’s Standard Offer program.

The Public Utility Commission wants to make it easier for more diverse technologies to participate successfully in Vermont's Standard-Offer Program, which is reflected in this year's RFP set to be issued on April 2. Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2018.