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Department of Energy briefs committee on agency role, regional electricity challenges and winter reliability
Summary
New Hampshire Department of Energy Commissioner Jared Chicoine and staff briefed the committee on DOE structure and responsibilities, highlighted regional electricity planning led by ISO New England, and warned that meeting neighboring states’ clean-energy goals could be expensive and affect reliability and rates.
Jared Chicoine, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Energy, told the Science, Technology and Energy Committee that the DOE was created in the 2021 budget and now administers the state’s energy policy and several programs that had previously been housed in the governor’s office. “We were created in the budget in 2021,” Chicoine said, explaining the department absorbed the former Office of Strategic Initiatives and now carries a portfolio that ranges from consumer assistance to statewide energy strategy.
Chicoine described the department’s four divisions — policy and programs, enforcement, regulatory, and administration — and said DOE has roughly “about 78 full time employees, about another dozen or so that are, full time temporary or or part time…
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