WHITE RIVER JUNCTION Thousands of Upper Valley residents in Vermont awoke on Monday to a third consecutive day without electricity, as utility crews for Green Mountain Power continued to tackle downed power lines and fallen trees in Windsor and.
Green Mountain Power’s new “resiliency zone” initiative is using outage and other data to pinpoint places in need of local grid upgrades. Its first projects consist of microgrids that will power remote villages during outages.
The batteries act like generators, providing a backup when the grid goes down and kicking in during periods of high energy usage, which lowers prices for ratepayers.