Vermont is the first state to pass a Clean Heat Standard – the heating equivalent of clean-power goals that many states have for electricity. Not surprisingly, the details are complicated, as Canary Media reporter (here): advocates criticize that it doesn’t prioritize heat pumps, billionaire’s whine that it will hurt their fossil-fuel sales.
Though the exact form the clean heat standard will take remains a question, the state will need to settle on some pathway in order to meet its emissions-reduction goals. Under a 2020 law, Vermont must reduce greenhouse gas pollution 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80 percent by 2050.
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IMHO “billionaire whiners”? Unless electricity is a lot less costly in Vermont than in New Hampshire, people living on social security and others with limited income, will whine about the electric bills. Just as with EVs, some put the cart before the horse. Our electrical infrastructure needs vast improvement, both generation and distribution, before fossil fuels can be significantly reduced. Until then, billionaire eyes will stay dry.