Vermont’s Public Utility Commission has advanced the Vermont Renewable Gas, Lyndon facility into the scheduling and public hearing stages of its Certificate of Public Good after authorising final review on October 1, 2025, signalling momentum for a 2.2 megawatt agricultural waste to energy plant in Lyndon. The developer is a CETY affiliate.
Permit Milestone Sets Construction Clock
From a permitting perspective, the order positions the sponsor to consolidate outstanding approvals and align interconnection and site works under a 12 million dollar engineering, procurement, and construction contract with CETY Renewables while integrating proprietary systems to meet the air and environmental standards the company cites. Public scrutiny now intensifies.
“This order marks a major step forward for the Vermont Renewable Gas project,” said Kam Mahdi, CEO of Clean Energy Technologies.
Technology And Revenue Stack Clarified
Drawing on advanced pyrolysis and gasification, the plant will convert farm biomass into synthetic gas for clean combustion, produce biochar with sequestration value, and deliver steady baseload output while CETY Renewables executes its 12 million dollar EPC scope. It will run on farm waste.
The project is already listed by the Maine Public Utilities Commission as a Class I and IA renewable resource with a 2.2 megawatt biomass designation, enabling REC monetisation, and earlier received a Permit to Construct and Operate from Vermont’s Department of Environmental Conservation’s Air Quality and Climate Division that frames operating conditions for combustion and feedstock processing.
“With this permit in hand, VRG and CETY are one step closer to realization of this critically important project,” Mahdi said in June 2024.
Local Policy Raises Baseload Demand
Align the project with Vermont’s updated Renewable Energy Standard, enacted as Act 179 of 2024, which requires utilities to deliver 100 percent renewable electricity by 2035 and phases earlier obligations for larger providers, a trajectory that tightens demand for dependable, non weather dependent capacity. Policy signals shape procurement. If approved, VRG Lyndon could supply compliance grade megawatt hours and RECs to utilities under bilateral contracts or market arrangements, though offtake specifics and interconnection terms are not yet disclosed by the sponsor.