Vermont § 2802 - Sale and distribution; regulation A person, association, company, or corporation, its successors, grantees, lessees, trustees, or receivers by whatever court appointed, that generates electric energy within the

§ 2802. Sale and distribution; regulation A person, association, company, or corporation, its successors, grantees, lessees, trustees, or receivers by whatever court appointed, that generates electric energy within the

• State by means of water power, or transmits in this State electric energy
  generated from outside the State, and that, in the location, construction, or maintenance
  of its generating plant, including the acquiring of water rights, flowing or ponding
  rights, within the State or rights-of-way, or in the establishment or maintenance
  of its lines for transmission of electric energy, confiscates by the exercise of the
  right of eminent domain, either under the general law, or if a corporation, under
  the provisions of its charter or general law, or has by the provisions of its charter
  or general law power so to do, the property of any person or any right, title, interest,
  easement, or estate, or uses a public highway for carrying its transmission lines
  over or along the same or beneath the surface thereof, at all reasonable times when
  requested so to do, shall sell and furnish at a reasonable price so much or such an
  amount of such electric energy as the public convenience or necessity may require
  to any and all persons, companies, cooperatives, and corporations, municipal, public
  or private, in this State, desiring to use the same in the State for heating, lighting,
  or power purposes or for any other public use or purpose