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Meet Board members and staff and enjoy fabulous deserts, coffee and tea.  We’re honored to have David Blittersdorf, founder of NRG Systems in Hinesburg and AllEarth Renewables in Williston, as our guest speaker.  David will talk about his businesses and the future for energy efficiency, solar, wind and wood pellets in Vermont.  Members will also hear reports on the Energy Co-op’s activities from Board President, Jennifer Chiodo and General Manager, John Quinney, and vote for several candidates running for seats on our Board of Directors.

To nominate someone for your Co-op’s Board of Directors, please call our office at (802)-860-4090 before July 31st.  Thank you

Save the date:  Tuesday, September 21^st at 6:00 p.m. at the St. Johns Club (9 Central Avenue, Burlington.

Each year we offer price protection and budget plans for our members.

Our price protection plans offer fixed or capped prices for heating oil for the twelve months starting July 1, 2010.  More than 1,100 Co-op members signed up for these plans last year.

We also offer budget plans for heating oil and kerosene.  For heating oil, our Smart Choice budget plan combines the convenience of regular monthly payments with the security of a capped price.  For kerosene, we offer a budget plan without price protection.

This year we’ll be introducing two new plans.

We’ll be offering a budget plan with a variable price for members who use heating oil, want the convenience of monthly payments but don’t want to pay for price protection.

We’ll also be offering a budget plan for Co-op members who use wood pellets.  Instead of getting a big bill when we deliver the pellets, members will be able to spread their payments over twelve months.

All this information and more goes in the mail in the week of July 5th.

Our office will be closed on Friday May 28th and on Monday May 31st, Memorial Day. We will also be closed on Friday July 2nd and Monday, July 5th.

We work on Martin Luther King Day and President’s Day during our busy winter season and make up these holidays in the summer.

As always, you can reach our on-call service technician at (802)-951-2498 if you have a heating system emergency or need a fuel delivery right away.

John Quinney
General Manager

The Energy Co-op has been delivering heating oil and kerosene to our members and customers since September 2000. When we started out, much of the heating oil we delivered was supplied by Exxon-Mobil and, as required under Vermont regulations, contained no more than 2,000 parts per million sulfur. Nowadays, about 95% of the heating oil we deliver is supplied by Valero Energy Corporation and it contains no more than 500 parts per million sulfur. In fact much of this oil is even cleaner – less than 15 parts per million sulfur!

This is about more than just the numbers. Low sulfur heating oil produces lower emissions and also burns cleaner than high sulfur product according to research studies from the Brookhaven National Laboratory and field trials conducted by oil dealers in New York and Virginia.

We’re seeing the same thing. Our service technicians tune-up dozens of our members’ heating systems starting each spring. They’re noting less soot and fuel deposits in our members’ furnaces and boilers. Over the past couple of years, we’re also getting fewer “no heat” service calls. Both these observations are linked to low- and ultra-low sulfur heating oil.

Low sulfur heating oil is no more expensive than the high sulfur product. It is a good environmental choice, and fewer service calls means more savings for our members.

Richie LaFond

Service Manager

Green Up Day is one of those wonderful Vermont traditions, now 40 years old! The first Green Up Day was April 18, 1970. Go to www.greenupvermont.org – and you’ll find a picture of Governor Deane Davis with a troop of scouts on the interstate while it was closed for clean up.

Green Up Day has a big impact. Over the past ten years, thousands of Green Up Day volunteers in Chittenden County have picked up 400 tons of trash, 18,000 tires and 400 tons of metal.

So mark your calendars, start talking to your family, friends and neighbors and lets have a large turn out for the 40th anniversary of Green Up Day. Contact your town coordinator on the list below for more information.

Bolton
Deborah LaRiviere, 434-5075, deborah@townofboltonvt.com

Burlington
Nicky Beaudoin (for event information), 865-7548, nbeaudoin@ci.burlington.vt.us, www.cedoburlington.org
Jenny Davis (Friday Businesses Contact Person), 865-7172, jdavis@ci.burlington.vt.us
Burlington Subaru (bag pick-up and drop-off), 660-8099, burlington@subarumail.com, www.burlingtonsubaru.com

Charlotte
John Quinney, 425-3773, johnq@gmavt.net

Colchester
Sharon Mallory, 658-4180, sharoninvt@gmail.com

Essex
Mark Berry, 878-1342, mberry@essex.org

Essex Junction
Mary Tewarson, 878-3035, tewarson@together.net

Hinesburg
Phil Pouech, 482-2060, ppouech@gmavt.net
Rocky Martin, 482-2096, hinesburgpw@gmavt.net

Huntington
Heidi Racht, 434-2032, huntingtonclerk@gmavt.net
Michel Luca Gilbert Wellspring Learning, 888-658-2685, michel@wellspring-learning.com

Jericho
J. Brooks Buxton, 434-8699, buxtonmideast@gmavt.net
Amanda Repp, amanda.repp@gmail.com
Jessica Alexander, 899-4936 x1, jerichovermont@yahoo.com

Milton, Frank and Laura Buswell, 893-2792, frankieb789@aol.com

Richmond
Ken and Jen Mincar, 434-5372, mincar@gmavt.net

South Burlington
Jana Beagley, City of Burlington, 846-4106, jbeagley@sburl.com
Sarah Dopp, 985-3581, sarah.dopp@vtmednet.org

Shelburne
Shannon Dufour Martinez, 881-0276, s.dufour.martinez@gmail.com
Pat Morrow, 985-8564, pmorrow11@yahoo.com

St. George
Mary Alice Favro, 482-3760, faustfavro@gmavt.net

Underhill
Barbara Yerrick, 825-8871, barbara_yerrick@antiochne.edu

Westford
Julie Elmore, 878-6812, juliekelmore@gmail.com
Mark Peloquin, 879-1897, mark_peloquin@yahoo.com

Williston
Jessica Andreoletti, 878-6704, jandreoletti@willistontown.com

Winooski
Erik Heikel, 343-4898, eheikel@comcast.net

John Quinney
General Manager

Now that spring is here, many of our members and customers are using much less oil or kerosene for heating their homes and hot water. Some folks turn their furnaces off as soon as they possibly can; others keep them running well into May.

For our members and customers on an automatic delivery schedule, our job is to make sure that no-one runs out of oil or kerosene and that we don’t make unwanted deliveries. After all, most people don’t want a spring bill for oil they won’t be using for at least six months.

Here’s how we handle spring deliveries:

The fuel assistance season ends on April 30th. So, for our fuel assistance clients who have money in their accounts, we deliver as near to the end of April as possible, provided the deliveries are at least 100 gallons.

For our pre-buy members and customers with funds available, we’ll deliver as normal, especially since our pre-buy price ($2.49) is well below current prices.

If you use oil or kerosene to heat your home (but NOT your hot water), we won’t make any deliveries after late April, unless we speak with you to get your OK.

If you use oil or kerosene to heat your home AND provide your hot water, we’ll deliver on our regular schedule through the end of June.

If you have an outside tank, it is better to fill your tank in the spring to prevent condensation that would otherwise occur during the summer. So, we’re happy to fill outside tanks in the spring upon request.

John Quinney
General Manager

The Vermont Home and Garden show is coming up April 16th – 18th and we’ll be there with information about Vermont wood pellets, special offers for our furnaces and boilers, and great prizes in our raffle. Show hours are noon – 8:00 p.m. on Friday, 10:00 – 8:00 on Saturday and 10:00 – 5:00 on Sunday.

We’re offering free bags of Vermont wood pellets – one per household – so that folks with pellet stoves can try these pellets at no risk. All we ask in return is your name, address, phone number and email address.

We’ll be showing our Olsen energy-efficient hot air furnace. We’re offering $250 off the price of this furnace for installations completed by June 30th – and Green Mountain Power customers receive and additional $500 rebate on this unit.

We’ll also have our new Napoleon pellet stove on display. This stove was highly rated by Consumer Reports and qualifies for the federal tax credit of up to $1,500!

See you at the show.

John Quinney
General Manager