If you reside in Vermont and are environmentally driven, then you must sign up for Central Vermont Public Service’s Cow Power program. Tell you why-it is a novel program that promotes development and reliance on renewable energy. What makes this ides so unique is that it has created a market for energy generated from methane by burning cow manures.
This Vermont Public Service Board approved program provides customers choices to buy either buy 25 percent, 50 percent, or all of their electricity through CVPS Cow Power. Interested customers will be charged an extra 4 cents per kilowatt-hour for the electricity provided. However, for every kilowatt-hour requested by customers and provided by a Vermont farm, CVPS will pay the farmer that developed the cow dung powered generator, the market price for energy plus the CVPS Cow Power charge of 4 cents for the environmental benefits of the energy-so that you request indirectly benefits the Vermont dairy farms.
CVPS Cow Power has received the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets’ Commissioner’s Choice Seal of Quality too.
Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport with its herd of 1,500 cattle is the first farm to provide energy through CVPS Cow Power.
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