Pursuant to Public Act 170, the Vermont Public Service Board is reviewing the Standard-Offer Program to implement several significant changes, including:

(1) Increasing the available capacity of the program;

(2) Modifying the requirements to enter into the standard-offer program;

(3) Allocation of available program capacity;

(4) Developing a process to identify plants that provide sufficient benefit to the operation and management of the grid;

(5) Developing a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Credit mechanism

(6) Establishing prices for hydroelectric facilities;

(7) Developing prices based on an avoided-cost methodology; and

(8) Examining market-based pricing methodologies.

Orders and Memoranda

• Order Opening Investigation
• Handout from Workshop of June 22, 2012
• Draft Revised Standard-Offer Contract
• Order Re Revisions to Standard-Offer Contract, Attachment, August 8, 2012
• Memo Re Notice of Workshops, August 9, 2012
• Memo Re August 14 Workshop Follow-up, August 17, 2012
• Order Re Agricultural Methane Projects and Statutory Cap, August 24, 2012
• Memo Re August 23 Workshop Follow-up, September 5, 2012
• Memo Re Notice of September 25 Workshop, September 7, 2012