In 2020 the Town of Monkton passed a new Town Plan that included an Enhanced Energy Plan. This Energy Plan is an extension of the Vermont Comprehensive Energy Plan that seeks to “enhance the vitality of the state and local economy by reducing money spent on fuels pumped, mined or generated elsewhere, improve our health through reduced
emissions, alternative transportation and improve the quality of our local and global environment through reduced greenhouse gas emissions. This robust energy plan is used as a tool to advance the economic and environmental well‐being of Monkton, thereby improving the quality of life for its residents. Furthermore, these energy goals will reduce Monkton’s vulnerability to energy‐related economic pressures and, in the long‐term,
climate change‐related natural disasters, and promote long‐term community resiliency in a variety of contexts.”
So how are we doing? The Addison County Regional Planning Commission has developed the following energy scorecard for Monkton: