⚠ICYMI: Tensions run high over future of energy facility siting 🔌
⚠ ICYMI: Tensions run high over future of energy facility siting in New Hampshire 🔌
by Hadley Barndollar
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...SEC Administrator Drew Biemer, the entity’s one staff member, supports the changes proposed by HB 609. Other states are benefitting disproportionately from grid modernization and renewable energy, he said, and the main roadblock in New Hampshire is “uncertainty in the process itself.”
Biemer said the public and all stakeholders must be “afforded their rightful place at the table,” and he testified it was his opinion that public input wouldn’t be changed under the proposed bill.
Department of Energy Deputy Commissioner Chris Ellms called it “common sense reform” that’s “not taking any side,” but rather improving the effectiveness of a process.
For the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire, it’s a top priority, added President and CEO Michael Skelton. He told the committee that further site evaluation reform would “help the state to attract investments in energy supply infrastructure and renewable energy sources, which has potential to lower energy costs.”
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