This commentary is by Jock Gill of Peacham, an internet communications consultant who served in President Bill Clinton’s Office of Media Affairs. He is town energy coordinator in Peacham.
An article April 19 in VTDigger discussed the Department of Public Service’s recommended cuts in net metering rates. It quotes T.J. Poor, director of the department’s Regulated Utility Planning Division: ”Maintaining low electric rates for ratepayers could incentivize Vermonters to make more general transitions to electricity. We want to make sure that that economic proposition to switch fuels is there for people to decide on their own, and that should lower the cost of our transition altogether.”
While the goal of affordable energy is laudable, it misses the key question: Is there a set of regulations, policies and incentives that would offer much less expensive electricity than is…
Jock Gill: Vermont climate plan fails to recognize batteries as strategic tools
