Kelly Ayotte: “we need to be very careful about this.”

Before the Boston Tea Party, we had the Pine Tree Riots here in New Hampshire. That's because the British tried to come in and tax our pine trees and take them for their own, and we said no way.

SB 540 protects that feature of balcony solar, prohibiting utilities from requiring interconnection agreements for the appliances.

As we have seen from recent risk pool failures, this is an important policy area to get right and these proposals need more work.

I would direct Shawn Jasper, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets, and Food, to convene a group of our small producers to discuss a path forward that does not violate federal law.