Vermont prices and inflation

The electricity fact measures the average retail price across all customer sectors. Allocating data-center infrastructure and energy costs concerns the utility-rate component of that price. The vetoed proposal establishes no actual rate change or savings. This relationship does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain its earlier value.

Retained Vermont evidence context: Average retail electricity price. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

(1) “Data center” means a facility that uses or is able to use 20 megawatts or more of power and is engaged in providing data processing, hosting, and related services as described under code 518210 of the 2022 North American Industry Classification System. […] § 284. LARGE LOAD SERVICE EQUITY CONTRACT; APPROVAL (a) For the purpose of ensuring just and reasonable rates for all ratepayer classes and precluding the risk of financial exposure to electric companies and their existing ratepayers, a data center shall be served by an electric company pursuant to a large load service equity contract approved by the Public Utility Commission. (b) The large load service equity contract shall: (1) include a method for allocating costs that is equal or proportional to the costs of providing electric service to the data center, including providing for equitable contributions to the embedded costs and the stability, efficiency, reliability, and resiliency of the electricity network; (2) ensure that other ratepayer classes are insulated from all costs associated with data center deployment, including expenses for new generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure, as well as energy capacity and resource adequacy costs; […] Sec. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION This act shall take effect on passage and shall apply to any data center not operational on the effective date of this act as well as to any data center that uses less than 20 MW of power that is operational on the effective date of this act to the extent such data center seeks to expand its capacity and meet the threshold requirements of Sec. 1, 30 V.S.A. § 283(1).

This gasoline fact is a six-state New England proxy covering Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The order concerns Vermont bulk gasoline supply and a possible input to pump prices; it neither sets retail prices nor demonstrates a change in the regional average. This relationship does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain its earlier value.

Retained Vermont evidence context: New England regular gasoline price. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

To maintain consistency with EPA’s waivers and minimize the risk of disruption of the gasoline supply sufficient to meet the demand in Vermont, the Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) shall utilize compliance flexibility and exercise enforcement discretion for APCR §5-253.6(a) to allow bulk gasoline terminals and bulk gasoline plants in Vermont to sell or supply gasoline with an RVP of 10.0 PSI for gasoline with a 10 percent ethanol content (“E10”). APCR §§5-253.6(b) – (d) shall remain in effect. This Executive Order shall take effect upon signing and shall continue in full force and effect so long as EPA has extended the temporary federal waiver under Clean Air Act Section 211(c)(4)(C)(ii)(I) but no later than September 15, 2026; or until the Governor, in consultation with the Secretary of ANR, shall assess and determine whether to amend or rescind this Order.

Wages and salaries contribute to household money income. The proposal concerns pay for covered workers, not every source of household income, and it does not establish a change in median household income. This relationship does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain its earlier value.

Retained Vermont evidence context: Median household income. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

(a)(1) Beginning on January 1, 2027, an employer shall not employ any employee at a rate of less than the livable wage of $18.60. On each subsequent January 1, the minimum wage rate shall be increased by five percent or the percentage increase of the Consumer Price Index, CPI-U, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, or successor index, as calculated by the U.S. Department of Labor or successor agency, rounded to one decimal point, for the 12 months preceding the previous September 1, whichever is smaller, but in no event shall the minimum wage be decreased.