VT H0710

Amends 30 V.S.A. § 8002 to require multiple electricity-generating facilities using the same technology on the same or contiguous parcels to be considered a single "plant," regardless of when each facility was constructed.

Creates three exceptions allowing facilities to be considered separate plants: (1) individual net-metering systems on different parcels serving different customers, (2) multi-owner net-metering within common interest communities, and (3) colocation of net-metering and Standard Offer Program facilities with separate interconnection points that don't exceed statutory capacity caps.

Adds new statutory definitions for "common interest community," "contiguous" (parcels sharing a boundary or separated only by a road, path, railway, stream, or river), "electricity-generating technology" (wind, hydropower, solar, or biomass), and "point of interconnection."

Effective date: July 1, 2026.