The Vermont Electric Cooperative received a $2.1 million grant from the federal government to help cover costs related to a December 2014 storm that brought down power and telephone lines and left 100,000 without power, some of them for more than a week.
The $2,130,871 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will cover 75 percent of the recovery costs incurred by the Johnson-based coop, which had 13,000 customers without power during the storm.
Dave Hallquist, the CEO of the cooperative, said the money makes a big difference for its members.
“This is great news,” he said in a release. “As a member-owned cooperative, VEC is eligible to apply for FEMA reimbursement of storm costs. Without federal assistance, the burden of cleanup costs would fall much harder on our members.”
