Vermont was an early leader on climate, adopting emission goals in 2006. After several years of progress, annual emissions increased over the last decade. In 2018, the latest year available, preliminary emissions totals were up 4% from the 1990 levels.

The state legislature passed the Global Warming Solutions Act in September after overriding a veto by Gov. Phil Scott. The new law changed Vermont’s emissions goals to requirements, allowing for legal action if state administrators fail to adopt rules that put Vermont on track to meet those requirements.

US developers Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company and Encore Renewable Energy have formed a new joint venture to co-develop a portfolio of pollinator-friendly solar farms in the northeast US.

Encore Renewable Energy and Greenbacker announced a new agreement for the completion of 14 solar projects aggregating to 28MW of capacity with pollinator-friendly ground cover. This initiative builds on the recently announced partnership and offers a unique opportunity to provide over 200 acres of habitat necessary for increasing the populations of pollinators such as bees and monarch butterflies.

A solar developer says one of its investors has agreed to make some of its facilities more pollinator friendly.

On Monday, Encore Renewable Energy, a Burlington-based solar developer, and Greenbacker Capital, based in New York, announced that 14 of their projects will feature plantings designed to help pollinators, such as bees.

Chad Farrell, chief executive officer of Encore, said Monday that the two portfolios are between Vermont and Maine. Locally, 115 acres of Encore’s Vermont projects will be pollinator-friendly. The new sites consist of one solar site in Middlebury, Shelburne and Northfield, two in Morrisville, and two in Hardwick.

Encore Renewable Energy, a company that specializes in the design, development, financing, permitting and construction of solar and energy storage projects, and Greenbacker, a limited partnership that makes corporate debt and equity investments in sustainable infrastructure development companies, have entered into a new agreement for the completion of 14 solar projects aggregating to 28 MW of capacity with pollinator-friendly ground cover.

Encore Renewable Energy and Greenbacker announced a new agreement for the completion of 14 solar projects aggregating 28MW of capacity of restored pollinator-friendly ground cover.

A solar developer says one of its investors has agreed to make some of its facilities more pollinator friendly.

On Monday, Encore Renewable Energy, a Burlington-based solar developer, and Greenbacker Capital, based in New York, announced that 14 of their projects will feature plantings designed to help pollinators, such as bees.

Chad Farrell, chief executive officer of Encore, said Monday that the two portfolios are between Vermont and Maine. Locally, 115 acres of Encore’s Vermont projects will be pollinator-friendly. The new sites consist of one solar site in Middlebury, Shelburne and Northfield, two in Morrisville, and two in Hardwick.

Encore Renewable Energy and Greenbacker announced a new agreement for the completion of 14 solar projects aggregating to 28 MW of capacity with pollinator-friendly ground cover. This initiative builds on the recently announced partnership and offers a unique opportunity to provide over 200 acres of habitat necessary for increasing the populations of pollinators such as bees and monarch butterflies. These new pollinator-friendly solar sites will support diverse and healthy pollinator populations with a diverse mix of native grasses and flowering plants.

Encore Renewable Energy and Greenbacker announced a new agreement for the completion of 14 solar projects aggregating 28 MW of capacity with pollinator-friendly ground cover. This initiative builds on the recently announced partnership and provides over 200 acres of habitat necessary for increasing the populations of pollinators such as bees and monarch butterflies.

Vermont is adding teeth and a new task force in an effort to get the state back on track toward its climate goals after several years of stalled progress.

Vermont was an early leader on climate, adopting emission goals in 2006. After several years of progress, annual emissions increased over the last decade. In 2018, the latest year available, preliminary emissions totals were up 4% from the 1990 levels.

The state legislature passed the Global Warming Solutions Act in September after overriding a veto by Gov. Phil Scott. The new law changed Vermont’s emissions goals to requirements, allowing for legal action if state administrators fail to adopt rules that put Vermont on track to meet those requirements.

“Pipeline injection is a national hydrogen strategy for the Netherlands, for Germany, for France, for Australia, for South Korea, for Japan,” said Mona Dajani, head of the renewable energy and green hydrogen practice of law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. “There are a number of pilot projects exploring the impacts of hydrogen blending around the world.”

Mona Dajani, an attorney who leads the hydrogen section of the law firm Pillsbury, believes the transition could happen faster than S&P predicts — key projects are already in the works today, she says.

Vermont Business Magazine Encore Renewable Energy and Greenbackerannounced a new partnership today that will expand the deployment of solar and energy storage projects on underutilized property with a new source of development capital from Greenbacker’s Development Opportunities Fund, the companies announced Thursday.

Greenbacker’s Development Opportunities Fund, part of the family of funds advised by Greenbacker Capital Management, LLC, was launched earlier this year to provide flexible capital to sustainable infrastructure developers across the United States. The fund also recently announced an equity investment in Chaberton Energy Holdings, Inc, a solar developer focused on the Mid-Atlantic region.

Encore Renewable Energy and Greenbacker have formed a partnership that they say will expand the deployment of solar and energy storage projects on underutilized property with a new source of development capital from Greenbacker’s Development Opportunities Fund.

Encore Renewable Energy and Greenbacker announced a new partnership that will expand the deployment of solar and energy storage projects on underutilized property with a new source of development capital from Greenbacker’s Development Opportunities Fund, the companies announced today.

Greenbacker’s Development Opportunities Fund, part of the family of funds advised by Greenbacker Capital Management, LLC, was launched earlier this year to provide flexible capital to sustainable infrastructure developers across the United States. The fund also recently announced an equity investment in Chaberton Energy Holdings, Inc., a solar developer focused on the Mid-Atlantic region.

Vermont-based solar and energy storage developer Encore Renewable Energy has obtained a corporate loan to finance development activity.

Revitalization Magazine features Encore Renewable Energy as it ramps up its expansion with new investment partnership.