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Senate committee hears bill to create reliability-indexing credit pilot for large battery storage
Summary
Sen. David Waters (D‑4) introduced SB 111, a bill to create a Public Utilities Commission pilot that would award dynamic reliability‑indexing credits to large battery storage projects to improve grid reliability and help shave peak demand.
Sen. David Waters (District 4) told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that he was introducing Senate Bill 111 to create a reliability-indexing credit pilot to help account for the growing number of large battery-storage projects entering New Hampshire.
Waters said the pilot is designed to encourage construction of 100–200 megawatt battery projects and to capture benefits from storage that improve grid reliability and peak shaving as the region integrates more intermittent resources.
James Andrews, chief executive officer of Granite Shore Power, told the committee the pilot would give developers a framework to contract with…
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