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Vermont power company’s plan to ‘end outages’ by 2030 includes installing lots of batteries.
The New York Times and WCAX 3 in Vermont report on a regulatory filing submitted by Green Mountain Power Company asking to spend $280 million to bury power cables, add spacers to cables that can’t be buried, and install more battery backup storage units for customers in the most remote rural areas.
NYT:
Green Mountain would control the batteries, allowing it to program them to soak up energy when wind turbines and solar panels were producing a lot of it. Then, when demand peaked on a hot summer day, say, the batteries could release electricity.
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