New Speaker Series, Award Nominations, and More

Total Energy News - November 2018

Your Update on Vermont and National Energy News

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!

We are now accepting nominations for the 2018 Anne and Arthur Berndt Award. The award will be presented at our second Speaker Series event on December 20th. Click here to read more about the criteria and submit a nomination.

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

News from the World

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.

Vox, Read More

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.

NY Times, Read More

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.

Bloomberg, Read More

Data Download

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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What's Coming Up?

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.