The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 9 V.S.A. § 3154)
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§ 3154. Adoption of standards
(a)(1) Rulemaking authority. The Department of Public Service shall adopt by rule, modify, revise, update, and
maintain Vermont energy-efficiency standards with respect to new products installed
in the State by a contractor or other construction professional or sold at retail
in the State. These standards in every instance shall be designed to ensure consumers’
easy access to new products that meet consumers’ needs and preferences and that will
be cost effective. These shall be minimum standards and shall not preempt stricter
standards otherwise duly established by State or local authority.
(2) Federal action. If federal legislation is passed prior to July 1, 1993 that requires adoption of light
bulb standards that are substantially equivalent to those required under this chapter,
and they are required to be in effect by July 1, 1995, the Department may forego adoption
of the rules required under this chapter. If federal standards are not, in fact, in
effect as of July 1, 1995, the Department shall proceed with adoption of standards
required under this chapter.
(b) Standards for new products. By no later than July 1, 1993, the Department shall adopt rules establishing energy-efficiency
standards for new products, so that each new product covered by those standards shall
consume less power in watts per unit of light output in lumens than a maximum reference
level to be established by the Department. These rules shall ensure that the standards
allow for new products whose fit, availability, and performance are substantially
the equivalent of products currently on the market and whose energy savings compensate
for any increased cost. If substantially equivalent fit, availability, and performance
is not readily attainable in these new products, the rules shall allow products currently
on the market to continue to be sold at retail and installed by contractors and construction
professionals in the State.
(c) Inventory. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, a retailer may sell light bulbs from
the retailer’s stock as it existed on the effective date of the prohibitions established
in this chapter. (Added 1991, No. 259 (Adj. Sess.), § 12.)