Vermont Electric Power Company says that someone shot at its transmission lines in Concord, damaging 105 out of 426 insulators. A VELCO spokesman calls the act "dangerous," and predicts it will lead to higher electric rates throughout New England.

The private company that operates Vermont's electric transmission network will soon get new board members appointed to represent the public.

The private company that operates Vermont's electric transmission network will soon get new board members appointed to represent the public.

The Vermont Electric Power Company, which operates the statewide grid, is exploring alternatives to building costly new transmission upgrades.

A couple who own property in the southwestern town of Wells have lost their battle to keep a utility from building a new communications tower there.

An effort to gain public ownership of the statewide transmission grid has stalled in the face of strong opposition from the governor and utility lobbyists. Lawmakers are now debating whether to study the idea.

A key Vermont lawmaker says he expects to offer an amendment on a budget bill that could put the state on a path toward majority ownership of the backbone of its electricity grid.

Small electric utilities in Vermont are worried that their concerns will be overwhelmed if the state's two largest power companies merge and gain control over the transmission network. Their attention is focused on VELCO, the company that manages the statewide electric grid.

The Shumlin Administration wants the public to have more of a role in managing Vermont's statewide electric grid. The suggestion for more public oversight comes as regulators review the planned sale of Vermont's largest electric company.

Control of the statewide transmission grid has emerged as a major issue as regulators review a proposed merger between the state's two largest utilities. Critics say the merged company under Canadian ownership is more likely to use Vermont as a corridor to import electricity from Quebec. But the transmission company is playing down those concerns.

The company that operates Vermont's electric grid wants to use a mountaintop in Rutland County as part of a statewide communications network. Landowners, however, are resisting the plan, so the Vermont Electric Power Company now wants a condemnation order that would allow it to build the project over their objection.  

The proposed sale of Central Vermont Public Service to a Canadian firm has raised a few questions about high power electric transmission corridors through Vermont and neighboring states.

A remote mountaintop in southwest Vermont is the center of a fight between a pair of immigrant artists and Vermont's electric transmission utility. The Vermont Electric Power Company wants to build an 80-foot radio tower on the site as part of a statewide communications network. But the artists say that the tower will ruin their plans for an art school on the property.