Vermont Sierra Club Voices Strong Support for Renewable Energy Reform
The Vermont Chapter of the Sierra Club is today expressing strong support for legislation modernizing our state’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES). At a time when the climate crisis faces our world, our nation, and our state, we must make clean energy progress. The Standard that is in place today fails the test. Reform is overdue.
Vermont is far behind our New England neighbors in adopting standards that reflect the demands of the climate crisis. Where Rhode Island targets 98% of its energy to come from new renewables, Vermont’s comparable requirement stands at 5% today and increases merely to 10% in 2032. We can do better, we must do better.
Says Stephen Crowley, Energy Chair of the Vermont Sierra Club, “We need to pick up the pace of growing the clean energy economy, and we need it at every scale, small, medium and large. We need Community Solar again so all Vermonters can participate, and guarantee themselves a secure and predictable energy future.”
The Sierra Club joined with other advocates around Vermont in cheering the newly proposed legislation.