There is no planet B. And we on Earth are not the captives of the utility companies. We mustn’t fall for the propaganda of New England Ratepayers Association, an organization whose misleading name makes it seem that it furthers the people’s interests. In reality, NERA fights to protect the monetary interests of the utilities and fossil fuel industry.

NERA and its NH companion, Ratepayers Legal Defense Fund (founded by Michael and James Sununu), aim to block net-metering. Net-metering occurs when a customer generating its own power sends extra energy to the grid and gets a credit for part of that energy’s value from the utility. Governor Sununu claims, without substantiation, that net-metering bill HB1218 would shift costs to other ratepayers.

HB1218 will open NH to locally produced and low-cost energy. It lifts the current one megawatt cap on the generating capacity of net-metered generators in NH to 3MW and then to 5MW in 2022.

In this time of job loss, HB1218 will provide critical help with immediate shovel-ready jobs. HB1218 will help NH recover economically from COVID-19. Here’s how: many municipalities, counties and businesses have renewable generation projects of 1-5MW on their drawing boards or ready to go, waiting only for the arbitrary size limit of 1MW to be lifted.

HB1218 is a step to support sustainable and renewable sources of energy, which is in the best interests of those wishing to survive on planet earth.

I urge the legislature to pass HB1218 and the governor not to veto it.

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