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SB106 Relative to the participation of customer generators in net energy metering.

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Relative to the participation of customer generators in net energy metering.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

4

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

4
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Your Wallet

Killing net metering reforms could reduce the financial incentive for homeowners to install solar, maintaining higher utility costs for all ratepayers.

4
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Your Community

Blocking net metering participation changes slows NH's clean energy adoption and may have made solar less accessible for homeowners.

4
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Your Freedom

Limiting net metering participation restricts homeowners' ability to generate and sell their own electricity, reducing energy independence.

Status

Indefinitely Postpone (Rep. Vose): Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 172-152 01/08/2026 House Journal 2 P. 72

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Timothy Lang (R)

The Short Version

Would have modified net metering rules for solar and other small generators. Indefinitely postponed on a 172-152 party-line vote, effectively killing changes to how homeowners with solar panels are compensated for excess electricity.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Utility companies that keep customers dependent on grid power

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Homeowners with solar panels
  • ▼ Clean energy industry
  • ▼ Residents seeking energy independence

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 opposed it ( 2 for , 171 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 150 for , 1 against ) .

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

Indefinitely Postpone 2026-01-08
Passed

YES = Kill the bill. NO = Keep the bill alive.

171R + 1D
Voted to Kill the Bill (172)
2R + 150D
Voted to Keep It Alive (152)
43
Absent
28
Not voting
Show all 395 individual votes

Voted Yea (172)

Republicans (171)
Democrats (1)

Voted Nay (152)

Republicans (2)
Democrats (150)
Absent (43)

Alicia Gregg (D) , Allison Knab (D) , Amy Malone (D) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Carrie Sorensen (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Charles Foote (R) , Darrell Louis (R) , David Lundgren (R) , David Luneau (D) , Deborah Aylward (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Dick Thackston (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , George Sykes (D) , Glen Aldrich (R) , James Roesener (D) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jeremy Slottje (R) , Jess Edwards (R) , Jim Creighton (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John MacDonald (R) , Juliet Harvey-Bolia (R) , Karen Hegner (D) , Laurence Miner (R) , Lex Berezhny (R) , Louise Andrus (R) , Mary Murphy (R) , Merryl Gibbs (D) , Michael Harrington (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Myles England (D) , Peter Morency (R) , Peter Schmidt (D) , Sandra Panek (R) , Sanjeev Manohar (D) , Sayra Devito (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Tim Hartnett (D) , Tim Mannion (R) , Toni Weinstein (D)

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