Consumer Advocate Asks Regulators To Find Biomass Subsidy Violates Federal Law
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Last session, lawmakers passed Senate Bill 365, which requires the state’s electric utilities to buy 100 percent of the output of seven wood-burning power plants.
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Last session, lawmakers passed Senate Bill 365, which requires the state’s electric utilities to buy 100 percent of the output of seven wood-burning power plants.
Monday could be decision day for the Seacoast Reliability Project.
Residents and leaders of Newington and Durham mostly oppose the project believing it will affect Little Bay’s water quality and negatively impact historic sites, property values and aesthetics.
SEC Chairman Patricia Weathersby said people in the affected communities are frustrated and angry that the applicant would be stirring up nitrogen when their communities have been working so hard to clean up their own pollution.
On Thursday, the committee agreed that the project won’t have an unreasonable adverse effect on aesthetics, air quality or historic sites.
After 17 adjudicative hearings, state regulators began Wednesday deliberating the fate of the Seacoast Reliability Project – a 13-mile high-voltage transmission line proposed to run from Madbury to Portsmouth.
The cost of the $84 million project will be included in all New England customer rates because it is a reliability project approved by ISO (Independent System Operator)-New England.
The Seacoast Reliability Project would create a 115-kilowatt transmission line over about 13 miles connecting the Madbury and Portsmouth substations.
The project costs would be included in all New England transmission rates because it is a reliability project approved by ISO (Independent System Operator)-New England.