VLITE

  • Trailblazers Green Student, courtesy VT Works for Women

The Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity (VLITE) funds projects that advance the state’s energy goals with a particular focus on the energy needs of low-income Vermonters.

Since 2013 VLITE has funded projects that bring about energy transformation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. VLITE funding has:

  • Helped put efficient wood stoves in low-income homes replacing outdated inefficient ones.
  • Removed dangerous and ineffective vermiculite insulation from older homes thus allowing fullscale weatherization projects to move forward through the State Office of Economic Opportunity Weatherization Assistance Program.
  • Partnered with the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board to assist low and moderate income families to buy high quality zero energy modular homes,
  • With Green Mountain Power, put battery storage in the homes of vulnerable Vermonters.
  • Through the Neighborworks HEAT Squad, provided incentives for low and moderate-income Vermonters to get their homes weatherized.
  • Supported construction and weatherization workforce training through Youthbuild and ReSOURCE.
  • Helped launch an initiative through Capstone Community Action to address transportation barriers in rural Vermont.

VLITE funds energy education and information initiatives too.

  • The Vermont Energy Education Program provides in-school and at-home curricula and materials for hands-on energy education for K-12 students and professional development for teachers.
  • Energy Action Network’s Dashboard tool is used by state officials, regional planning commissions, towns and town energy committees, and distribution and efficiency utilities as well as the general public.