Over the past sixteen months, a group of energy and economic experts came together
with the cooperation of State government and the two largest Vermont electric utilities to
develop a set of consensus energy and economic impact analyses associated with the
continued operation or closure of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. The analytic
group engaged in these studies consists of: Energy consultants hired by the General
Assembly’s Joint Fiscal Committee; State consulting economists hired by Vermont’s two
largest utilities, with permission and approval for their participation in this project by the
Joint Fiscal Committee and Agency of Administration; Economists and power planners
from the Vermont Department of Public Service; and, Power planning experts from the
State’s two largest utilities, Central Vermont Public Service and Green Mountain Power. 1