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Fitch Ratings downgrades the ratings on the education loan revenue bonds issued by Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC) issued under the 1995 General Resolution. The rating is removed from Rating Watch Negative and a Stable Outlook is assigned to the bonds. A complete list of the ratings is shown below.
In his first interview as governor with Vermont Business Magazine, Peter Shumlin talks about why he ran for governor, the differences between being a governor and a legislator, his steadfast opposition to the renewed operation of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and his hopes for renewable energy.
Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) today announced Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC has completed negotiations on a 20-year agreement to sell power from the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant to customers of Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc, the third-largest electric distribution utility in Vermont. Entergy also stated that it will not sell the plant.
by Anne Galloway vtdigger.org March 30, 2011 The T-bill, or state transportation bill, as it’s known, took a $42 million hit this year when the federal government ended funding for state transportation projects in 2011 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Most of that money is coming out of paving and road building.
NRG Systems, manufacturer of wind measurement equipment and long-time proponent of healthy workplaces, received the silver Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Worksite Wellness Award yesterday at the annual Worksite Wellness Conference held in Burlington.
Excavation work began today on lower Church Street as part of a $1.6 million project which will significantly re-design pedestrian and streetscape elements of lower Church Street and Saint Paul Street.
Three communities were awarded grants this week by the Vermont Downtown Development Board to fund local infrastructure improvements such as new sidewalks, signage and streetlights.
The Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center (VMEC) has teamed up with Purdue University’s Technical Assistance Program to offer Green Generalist Online training, an interactive and educational online course that provides awareness of the key environmental issues facing companies and ways to redesign their business practices using environmentally friendly techniques.
Draker Labs, a provider of high performance turnkey monitoring systems for large commercial and utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, has been selected by Ray Angelini Services, Incorporated (RAI), to monitor 11 solar projects located throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Seven of the projects have been commissioned and the remaining ones are currently under development.
Utility Risk Management Corporation (URMC) today announced the introduction of new thermal imaging technology ‘ Thermal Directâ ¢ ‘ capable of enhancing the reliability and efficiency of the nation’s electric grid.
Saint Michael’s College associate professor of physics, Dr Alain Brizard, learned this month that he will be the recipient of a grant from the Department of Energy for $33,000 each of the next three years to support his research. The funding comes from the DOE’s office of Fusion Energy Sciences of the Office of Science.
On Tuesday, March 29, NOFA Vermont joined dozens of farmers, seed producers, agricultural businesses and non-profit organizations across the country and Canada, as plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against Monsanto Corporation. The suit challenges the validity of the chemical giant’s patents on a number of its genetically engineered (GE) crops.