Green Mountain Power asked the FCC for a three-month extension of...
Green Mountain Power asked the FCC for a three-month extension of the commission’s Jan. 1 VHF/UHF narrowbanding deadline for private land mobile radio service operations. Green Mountain, which merged with Central Vermont Public Service Corp. in June, is Vermont’s largest…
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electric utility, with about 250,000 customers. “For more than seven years, Green Mountain has worked diligently and in good faith to move its statewide radio system from wideband VHF to a new narrowband network on the 220 MHz band, but through no fault of its own recently encountered an unexpected delay in completing the transition,” the utility said (http://xrl.us/bn5pb6). “Green Mountain requests only a brief extension to test the new equipment and train more than 300 employees to use the new system, which is considerably more complex than the current VHF system. Extending the deadline would ensure that work crews can communicate and respond to power outages caused by Vermont’s severe winter weather."