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the PG&E project is a technology demonstration which is a nice first step green mountain power appears to be a retailer of electricity and not a distribution c
by snowwindwaves 9y ago
the PG&E project is a technology demonstration which is a nice first step
green mountain power appears to be a retailer of electricity and not a distribution company; they don't own any power lines. The distribution co. will have to be on board to safely accept power flowing in the opposite direction (from the load), and for the most part they have no incentive for this so don't really care.
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoWikipedia says they own 21,000Km of power lines: Green Mountain Power (GMP), a subsidiary of Gaz Métro, is the largest electricity distributor in Vermont, serving over 70% of the market and more than 260,000 customers. GMP’s core business includes the distribution, transportation, generation, purchase and sale of electricity in Vermont and, to a lesser degree, electricity transportation in New Hampshire and electricity generation in the states of New York, Maine and Connecticut. The GMP network comprises over 1,500 km of overhead transmission lines, 18,000 km of overhead distribution lines and 1,600 km of underground distribution lines, located mainly in Vermont but also extending to New Hampshire and New York.[17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaz_M%C3%A9tro#Vermont_operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaz_M%C3%A9tro#Vermont_operati... You may be confusing them with Green Mountain Energy, which got spun off and bought by someone else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mountain_Energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mountain_Energy