In the distant past, everyone believed every home would have its own little nuclear plant to provide the electricity needed to be self-sufficient and charge cars that flew.
Business & Economy
OPINION: Tom Mullen Says Northern Pass Opponents Will Prevail
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While the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee (NH SEC) had an obligation to weigh four clearly stated statutory factors during its hearings and its deliberations on the Northern Pass, it only had to find the applicant lacking in one of those four factors in order to deny the application.
Business & Economy
OPINION: Councilor Andru Volinsky Says Northern Pass Is About Money, Power
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The application failed because Eversource and its experts were not credible when they asserted that the project would have no adverse effect on virtually anything.
Energy
Soaring Costs But Limited Progress in Cleanup of ‘Scariest’ Nuclear Sites
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Rep. Ann M. Kuster (D-N.H.) pointed out before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, that, besides costs, the risk of accidents or sabotage at the 16 sites only increases with time.
Business & Economy
Plan To Keep Six Biomass Plants Operating Mostly Backed at Senate Hearing
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Supporters say an amendment to HB 183 will preserve the state policy that was passed last year, but has yet to be enacted because of legal disagreements.
Energy
The Anti-CWIP Law at 40: Still Used and Useful After All These Years
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Anti-CWIP was the issue that catapulted Hugh Gallen to an upset victory in the 1978 gubernatorial election that ousted three-term incumbent Meldrim Thomson.
Business & Economy
Lawmakers Take On Wood-Burning Plant Subsidies and Net Metering, Again
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Should you pay to subsidize wood-burning electric generating plants?
Business & Economy
Bipartisan Biomass Energy Amendment Seeks To Avoid Long Legal Fight
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the amendment on Tuesday, May 7.
Energy
Rate Design: The Fun Phase of Any Rate Case
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You can read James C. Bonbright’s famous treatise, Principles of Public Utility Rates, of more than 400 pages. Or take D. Maurice Kreis’s word for it. Hmm.
Business & Economy
Army Corps: Seacoast Power Project Impacts on Federal Waters Will Be Significant
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The Army Corps announced it will require a site specific “individual” permit rather than a “general” permit which would have left the bulk of the work to the state Department of Environmental Services.