"...Meet 25% of the remaining energy need from renewable sources by 2025, 40% by 2035, and 90% by 2050. Three end-use sector goals for 2025: 10% renewable transportation, 30% renewable buildings, and 67% renewable electric power..."
I stayed at a farm up there, and the woman who ran it had a good sized bank of solar panels. I was curious, because an option to be self sufficient with power storage is very appealing to me, but when I asked she said no, they were just to sell power back to the grid and wouldn't be of use to her in a power outage.
But she took the opportunity to tell me all about the state energy policy, and with a grin (she was a pretty conservative woman) she said: "They're going crazy up here-with these stupid unattainable goals and they have already bungled things bad enough now that they have to purchase power from Canada. (she laughs) Canada! A portion of the power they get is from Nuclear power...so they have to support the Nuclear industry with their money, so some of them are going completely berserk!"
I grew up in Vermont. I was back there last summer to visit my parents. The windmills are as ugly as the billboards that are banned from the state. Solar power is being pushed like crazy. My folks did check into it but by the time it would become practical, they would likely not be around. Their town is full of leftists now who are trying to prevent natural gas to be brought in. But, co-housing, solar power, poetry readings, other weird stuff I cannot remember, those are important to the community.