The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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GENERAL POWERS
(Cite as: 30 V.S.A. § 210)
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§ 210. Electric companies; interconnection facilities
(a) The Public Utility Commission shall have jurisdiction to order electric companies
subject to its supervision to build or rebuild electric transmission lines in order
to provide adequate interconnection between the transmission systems of the State.
The Commission shall have power to exercise this jurisdiction only after due notice
to all interested parties and opportunity for hearing and after making findings based
upon adequate evidence that the ordered construction:
(1) is necessary in the interests of consumers of electrical energy;
(2) is not detrimental to the interests of the investors of the company ordered to build
or rebuild; and
(3) will serve the public good.
(b) The Commission may allocate the cost of building or rebuilding between the companies
whose facilities are to be interconnected, providing that the findings referred to
are made as to each company affected by the allocation. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1999, No. 157 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 366, eff. July 1, 2024.)