A New Hampshire house committee approved a bill Tuesday extending an agreement that helps Berlin’s Burgess biomass power plant continue to operate for another year. Included in that bill was a new amendment that would significantly change the Senate’s bill passed in March. Their version would have forgiven a debt Burgess owed to New Hampshire ratepayers,...

CONCORD — Action on legislation to keep the Burgess BioPower biomass plant operating was postponed until Tuesday, April 26, while discussions are held on a compromise solution. Senate Bill 271 is currently before the House, having already passed the Senate. At a public hearing last week, the House Science, Technology, and Energy Committee heard strong...

When it comes to New England’s base-load power supply, the minimum amount of total power we need to keep our electric grid running each day, there is an alarm sounding. Unfortunately, we cannot afford to just hit snooze and go back to bed. We have to wake up. We must protect all New Hampshire’s power...

When it comes to New England’s base-load power supply, the minimum amount of total power we need to keep our electric grid running each day, there is an alarm sounding. Unfortunately, we cannot afford to just hit snooze and go back to bed. We have to wake up. We must protect all New Hampshire’s power...

CONCORD — Without passage of Senate Bill 271, the Burgess BioPower biomass plant in Berlin would be forced to close, company officials told members of the House Science, Technology, and Energy Committee on Tuesday. Many people testified about the plant’s importance to the North Country and the state’s timber industry. But others argued the plant...