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Heated local debate over repeal of municipal solar property tax exemption
Summary
HB 1002 would repeal the local option that allows municipalities to exempt residential solar systems from property tax. Sponsors called the exemption an unfair redistribution of tax burden; municipal assessors, solar owners, industry groups, community power coalitions and clean‑energy advocates said repeal would remove local control, harm homeowners who invested under existing rules and discourage local renewable deployment.
Concord, N.H. — The Science, Technology and Energy Committee heard hours of testimony for and against HB 1002, a bill to repeal the municipal/local‑option solar property tax exemption that allows towns and cities to exclude residential solar equipment from assessed value. The hearing drew dozens of witnesses, municipal officials, assessors, installers and homeowners.
Representative Len Turcotte, sponsor of HB 1002, argued the exemption redistributes local property tax burden from a small minority of solar owners to the majority of taxpayers in towns and that repealing the allowance would restore…
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