Vermont Public Radio: wind energy
One of the stalwarts of Vermont's renewable energy industry is announcing a round of layoffs.
Construction has started on a 10-megawatt wind energy development in northwestern Vermont. The Georgia Mountain project, which will feature four wind towers over 400 feet high, has recently attracted a major new investor.
Newport Daily Express reporter Laura Carpenter on a proposed wind project in Derby Line, and the opposition from the town and its neighbors in Stanstead, Quebec.
A wind energy project planned for the Northeast Kingdom is getting a frosty reception in the town of Newark. And members of the town planning commission say they're overwhelmed as they prepare to review what could be the state's largest wind development.
Vermont's draft Comprehensive Energy Plan sets a goal of 90 percent renewable energy sources by 2050.
Green Mountain Power will be allowed to start construction in August on Lowell Mountain without first having conservation easements in place to protect wildlife habitat.
Construction could begin this fall on a four-turbine wind project on a ridgeline in Milton.
The Agency of Natural Resources is developing an environmental map of the state that will identify those parts of the state that are suitable and not suitable for wind energy projects. But both supporters and opponents of wind energy think the plan has serious flaws.
The Public Service Board has opened hearings on Green Mountain Power's plans to harness the wind that blows over a mountain ridge in the Northeast Kingdom.
A generation ago, a federal housing program was created that gave property owners financial incentives to rent their apartments to low-income tenants. The 30-year contracts in that program are ending, and that puts a question mark on the future of thousands of subsidized housing units across Vermont.
VPR's Jane Lindholm gets an update on the upcoming vote for a wind project in Lowell from Burlington Free Press environmental reporter Candace Page.
An environmental court judge has dealt a setback to a wind energy developer that wants to build a project in the Northeast Kingdom.




