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HB221 Enabling electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources, and relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities and limitations on community customer generators.

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Enabling electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources, and relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities and limitations on community customer generators.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

6

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

6
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Your Wallet

Bill aims to lower electricity costs through diverse baseload and renewable energy sources and extends utility RFPs, but concrete rate impacts depend on future purchasing decisions and nuclear technology costs not yet determined.

7
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Your Community

Doubling low-income community solar capacity from 6 MW to 12 MW annually expands clean energy access for lower-income households, while raising net metering thresholds may benefit larger commercial generators over residential customers.

5
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Your Freedom

Bill makes procedural changes to utility contracting and net metering rules without restricting individual rights, though it shifts regulatory authority to utilities and the energy department.

Status

Veto Sustained 08/19/2026: Regular Calendar 152-167 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote House Journal 16

Voted Yes

150 R + 2 D

Voted No

26 R + 141 D

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Michael Harrington (R)

The Short Version

This bill allows utilities to invest in advanced nuclear reactors alongside renewables, extends the RFP deadline for long-term power purchase agreements to 2040, doubles the cap on low-income community solar projects to 12 MW annually, raises the net metering threshold from 100 kW to 500 kW, and allows net metering customers to split allocations across multiple solar hosts. The stated goal is reducing NH's above-average electricity costs through diverse energy sources.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Low-moderate income households through doubled community solar capacity (12 MW vs 6 MW)
  • ▲ Electric utilities gaining authority to invest in and operate advanced nuclear resources
  • ▲ Larger distributed generation facilities (100+ kW) now eligible for simpler net metering
  • ▲ Customers seeking long-term stable electricity costs through diverse energy procurement

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Ratepayers if utility nuclear investments prove costly or underperform
  • ▼ Residential net metering customers (100-500 kW facilities) now required to fund bidirectional metering costs
  • ▼ Smaller residential solar generators relative to larger commercial generators under new metering tiers
  • ▼ Communities if utility nuclear development displaces other energy investments

Roll Call Detail (1 vote)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 1 recorded vote on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 150 for , 26 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 2 for , 141 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Veto Override 2026-08-19
Failed

YES = Override the veto (keep the bill alive). NO = Let the veto stand (kill the bill).

150R + 2D
Voted to Override (152)
26R + 141D
Voted to Sustain Veto (167)
26
Absent
39
Not voting
Show all 384 individual votes

Voted Yea (152)

Republicans (150)
Democrats (2)

Voted Nay (167)

Republicans (26)
Democrats (141)
Absent (26)

Alicia Gregg (D) , Charlie St. Clair (D) , Cindy Bennett (R) , Darrell Louis (R) , Debra DeSimone (R) , Ellen Read (D) , Ellen Rockmore (D) , Gary Daniels (R) , Jim Kofalt (R) , John Potucek (R) , Jose Cambrils (R) , Karen Ebel (D) , Kevin Verville (R) , Kimberly Rice (R) , Kristin Noble (R) , Leonard Turcotte (R) , Linda Harriott-Gathright (D) , Loren Selig (D) , Marjorie Smith (D) , Merryl Gibbs (D) , Mike Ouellet (R) , Paul Berch (D) , Ron Dunn (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Vanessa Sheehan (R) , Walter Spilsbury (R)

Did not vote (39)

Aidan Ankarberg (I) , Beth Richards (D) , Bill Ohm (R) , Bryan Morse (R) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Dan Bergeron (D) , Daniel LeClerc (D) , Donald McFarlane (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Erica deVries (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , James MacKay (D) , James Summers (R) , Jared Sullivan (D) , Jason Osborne (R) , Jennifer Mandelbaum (D) , Jim Creighton (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John Leavitt (R) , John Stone (D) , John Suiter (R) , Mark Vallone (D) , Michael Vose (R) , Molly Howard (D) , Peter Morency (R) , Peter Varney (R) , Riche Colcombe (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Russell Muirhead (D) , Samantha Jacobs (D) , Sayra Devito (R) , Sean Durkin (R) , Sherman Packard (R) , Stephanie Grund (D) , Steven Bogert (R) , Travis Corcoran (R) , Travis Toner (R) , Valerie McDonnell (R) , William Dolan (D)

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