Green Mountain Power

We are deploying solutions likes drones to help keep customers connected and safe in the face of increasingly frequent and severe storms. Here's a story WCAX-TV did on our drone program! There are so many benefits: ? - Technology speeds up damage assessment on remote, rugged, off-road lines - Faster repairs for customers, including after Debby brought storm damage to Vermont - Greater safety for field crews working in dangerous conditions? - Latest tool enhancing system resiliency while driving down costs for GMP customers In addition, we have been working proactively with proven solutions by rapidly undergrounding lines in many areas, storm-hardening above ground lines with stronger cables and spacer cable, and expanding energy storage. #innovation #resiliency #vt #letsgo?

Check out CNET and how our innovative work to keep Vermonters connected is leading the way! Our Virtual Power Plant is lowering costs and carbon for all, while helping keep people safe in the face of severe weather. The South Burlington community we partnered with the O'Brien Brothers on is a great example featured here... batteries, community storage, electric heating, electric cooling, electric driving, electric cooking and more. Proud of the team #vt approach, where we are all connected and all in it together. Love how reporter Jon Reed summed it up: "It's easy to think of solar panels and home batteries as routes to energy independence, to cutting oneself off from the grid and its vulnerabilities and going it on your own. But what if the solution to both of these problems isn't energy independence but energy interdependence."

Love this team, our state, and all we can do for customers!

ICYMI: New York Times featuring #vt teamwork using busses as batteries to lower cost and carbon for customers, and support our Zero Outages Initiative! This includes expanding energy storage, undergrounding of lines, and storm hardening overhead lines so everyone stays powered up by 2030. #energystorage #innovation "In total, Green Mountain Power has access to 50 megawatts of battery storage from school buses, home batteries and other sources, said Mari McClure, the utility’s chief executive. That’s as much as a small gas power plant. Unlike a plant that runs on fossil fuels, the power is available almost instantly. The utility asked Vermont regulators last month to allow it to?install batteries at the homes of its customers?who don’t already have one, an effort that would dovetail with its work on school buses."

A beautiful event, celebrating the opening of the East Calais General Store. We worked with town leaders so this store and community center is fully electric with no fossil fuels! #vt #letsgo