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Comprehensive Energy Plan

Following completion of the 2005 Vermont Electric Plan, the DPS Planning Division has begun work on an update of the Vermont Comprehensive Energy Plan. The current version of the plan was published in 1998.

Fueling Vermont's Future: Vermont Comprehensive Energy Plan and Vermont Greenhouse Gas Action Plan, 1998

Fueling Vermont's Future outlines Vermont's present energy situation, projects future energy use and models and recommends energy policies for the next 20 years. The plan is mandated by Vermont law (30 V.S.A. § 202a and b) and seeks to outline an energy strategy that is safe, adequate, reliable, secure, sustainable, environmentally sound, efficient, and affordable, while maintaining economic vitality.

The Overview (pdf, 145kb) is a brief introduction to Fueling Vermont's Future.

Volume 1: Summary and Recommendations. ( zip, 832kb) This document is a compact version of the full plan (approximately 150 pgs). It has 120 recommendations (not in Volume 2). It contains summarized chapters and a selection of figures from the complete Plan as follows: Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Energy Goals for Vermont's Future; Chapter 3. Vermont's Energy Use: Past, Present, and Future; Chapter 4. Energy Strategies, Policies, and Recommendations: I. Energy Sources and Supply, II. Transportation, III. Buildings and Equipment, IV. Affordability, V. Government Energy Use and Energy Policy. It also includes a list of References, Appendix 1 which contains Abbreviations and a Glossary, and an Index. It is too large for on-line viewing but can be downloaded. The download file is zipped in Word Perfect 6.1 (wpd) format.

Volume 2 contains the full analysis of policies but not the Department's 120 recommendations or an index. It contains the complete text and all figures, including Chapter 5 which is a set of 20 policies selected from the 70 policies presented in Chapter 4. These are modeled together as the "composite case" and compared to the business-as-usual base case. Volume 2 also includes several additional appendices. It is too large for on-line viewing but you can download it as one or more files. Download files are zipped in Word Perfect 6.1 (wpd) format.

 

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