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Energy Forward Act aims to open retail market to distributed resources; utilities and DOE raise practical concerns
Summary
House Bill 755 would require utility and market reforms to let distributed energy resources and aggregators participate more fully in retail price signaling and settlement. Supporters say the bill would clarify rules, improve data and enable competition; utilities warned of large system costs and settlement complexity.
Representative Kat McGee introduced House Bill 755, dubbed the New Hampshire Energy Forward Act, as a wide‑ranging package of retail market reforms intended to accelerate use of distributed energy resources (DERs), expand time‑sensitive pricing and enable competitive suppliers and community aggregators to offer advanced services.
The proposal would amend statutory definitions (including “grid modernization”), add a definition for “load reducer” up to 5 MW, and direct changes to metering, billing, data access and load‑settlement procedures so competitive suppliers and community power programs can contract for local generation, storage and demand flexibility.
Why it matters Supporters — led by the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire — told the committee the package…
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