Karen Glitman: Efficiency Vermont’s listening tour

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Karen Glitman, who is the director of Efficiency Vermont.
When people think about their local electric utility, their first thoughts are likely of poles and wires, and the electric meter on the side of their house. We think of them as energy producers: regulated businesses that provide us with reliable electricity – an enormous, complex and critical task. For the past 17 years, however, Vermont has had a different kind of energy producer, one that