OCT 10

I see that Ecogeek has fallen prey to corporate spin yet again. The easiest thing in the world is for a politically affiliated group to make long term promises.

Ecogeek would be best served not to publish this rubbish.

Best bet is to do a lot of EV & Plug-in hybrids! This will give you movable energy storage as well as clean transportation. At night homes can run off the car until bed time, while sun is down, recharge via the grid at low use rates and leave enough charge to get back to work where you charge up via solar arrays. Wind can help to charge at night. Good luck!

I'm very dubious of them reaching this goal. I live in Vermont. I can personally get 90% of my energy needs from local renewable resources. But I do not believe that the urban areas can attain this. Photovoltics are not a good choice in our climate. Sadly, too many NIMBYs oppose wind, something we do have, but even then wind isn't enough. What we do have most of all is hydro power but the state is to much in opposition to hydroelectric. They're actually destroying dams, damn them. Wood is great. Passive solar gain is great. But neither of those are going to work well enough in the cities. Totally redesigning how homes and such are built is the ultimate solution to the heating, as well as maintenance, but that isn't going to happen any time soon. We built our house so it naturally heats itself. But we're not going to see that adopted statewide. This is just a spin press release. As the commenter above said, they're just doing political spin with impossible long term goals they don't have to meet - heck, most of them will be dead before the deadline approaches.

@ Walter: Your assessment that solar is not a practical option in Vermont isn't accurate. If we take a look at Germany, which is at a higher latitude and has more cloud cover, yet it's so far ahead of Vermont as far as installed solar per capita is concerned. More importantly, it's working for them.
I agree with your suggestion that redesigning how homes are built is the ultimate solution.

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Germany has a lot of photovoltaic capacity, thanks to very generous feed-in tariffs paid by the consumers, but actual production is less impressive even in summer, and nearly nonexistent in winter when demand is greatest. Vermont would be foolish to follow Germany's example of closing nuclear plants which were largely paid off, and capable of providing reliable, cheap, low carbon power for many years