CleanTechnicaOctober 16, 2023 By Steve Hanley
Green Mountain Power Takes A Bold Step Toward ⚡ Energy Resiliency SNIPPETS:
Green Mountain Power has just filed a proposal with the state of Vermont that it says could eliminate power outages for all 270,000 of its customers by 2030. The plan is to put many of its power lines underground where they are safe from falling trees and branches, strengthen the lines that have to remain above ground so they can better resist powerful winds and heavier snowfalls, and install a
residential storage battery in the home of
every residential customer. 👍🌞
Those
batteries can keep the ⚡ power on when outages do occur so people don’t have to live without heat or 💧 water during a Vermont winter.
Does that last part surprise you? That’s because you have never lived somewhere that depends on water from a well. When the lights go out, so does the well pump, which can change your whole perspective about how much we take running water for granted.
Why is Green Mountain Power doing this? “We don’t want the power to be off for our customers
ever. People’s lives are on the line. That is ultimately at the heart of why we’re doing what we’re trying to do,” CEO Mari McClure told the
New York Times. ... ...
The floods wiped out a beekeeper who happened to be a neighbor of
Bill McKibben, which inspired him to research the cause of the flooding. He discovered that warm air holds more moisture, which in turn leads to heavier than normal rains which in turn lead to flooding in places where storm water never used to be a problem. And the reason the air temperatures are rising is, in large measure, due to the gigatons of carbon dioxide and methane pumped into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels.
McKibben used what he learned to write a book called
Oil And Honey, which drew a bright line between the activities of the
fossil fuel companies and the
destruction of his neighbor’s bees.
Full article:
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/16/green-mountain-power-takes-a-bold-step-toward-energy-resiliency/