Specifications include, but are not limited to: The primary responsibility of the public engagement facilitator will be to design and conduct public engagement related to the recently enacted Clean Heat Standard legislation, bringing expertise in equity, justice, and inclusion to this process. The Commission and the facilitator will incorporate the Guiding Principles for a Just Transition into the public engagement process.1 The core requirements for this work are described in Act 18, Sec. 6 (b) – (d): 2 “(b) . . . Public engagement shall be conducted by the facilitator for the purposes of: (1) supporting the Commission in assessing whether customers will be equitably served by clean heat measures and how to increase equity in the delivery of clean heat measures; (2) identifying actions needed to provide customers with low income and moderate income with better service and to mitigate the fuel price impacts calculated in 30 V.S.A. § 8128; (3) recommending any additional programs, incentives, or funding needed to support customers with low income and moderate income and organizations that provide social services to Vermonters in affording heating fuel and other heating expenses; and (4) providing information to the Commission on the challenges renters face in equitably accessing clean heat measures and recommendations to ensure that renters have equitable access to clean heat measures.
