Northeast Energy Efficiency Policy In Your State
Energy Efficiency Policy in New Hampshire
While New Hampshire does not currently mandate all cost-effective energy efficiency, its investor-owned utility companies offer electric and natural gas efficiency programs to residential and business customers as regulated under the NH Public Utilities Commission, and can earn performance incentives for meeting energy saving goals. New Hampshire is also evaluating new policies that can promote energy efficiency as a result of SB 323 of 2010.
The Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Energy Board (EESE Board) was created by the NH legislature in 2008 "to promote and coordinate energy efficiency, demand response, and sustainable energy programs in the state." The EESE Board is administratively attached to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Energy efficiency programs, known as the CORE efficiency programs, are run by investor-owned utilities and the New Hampshire Electric Coop. Electric efficiency programs are funded through a Systems Benefit Charge (SBC), currently set at 1.8 mills/kWh, while natural gas companies are funded by a separate efficiency surcharge.
New Hampshire also has mandatory residential and commercial energy codes based on IECC 2006.
Promoting Energy Efficiency in the Granite State
NEEP comments on SB 252 Regarding Energy Performance Contracts (1/25/12)
NEEP comments on VEIC Independent Study of New Hampshire Policy Issues (July 22 2011). To read the draft report, click here. This grew out of a paper NEEP wrote in 2009, "Maximizing Efficiency in NH," which you can view here.
Office of Energy and Planning