Starting early next year, they expect to transform the city’s distribution grid from a 100-year-old electric delivery model to a market-based platform designed to create efficiencies and distributed energy solutions through renewable technologies and energy storage.

"This partnership is a really big deal for our customers and for Vermont," said GMP chief executive Mary Powell.

“Our customers consistently tell us they want tools to save money and move to renewable energy sources, and we can show the rest of the country how to get there.