relative to customer energy storage.

HB 1290 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-2815
06/07

HOUSE BILL
1290

AN ACT
relative to customer energy storage.

SPONSORS: Rep. McGhee, Hills. 35; Rep. Caplan, Merr. 8; Rep. Cormen, Graf. 15; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Watters, Dist 4

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

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ANALYSIS

This bill provides that the department of energy shall adopt rules relative to installation and use of energy storage systems. The bill also provides that the public utilities commission may approve tariffs and issue orders in adjudicated proceedings consistent with, or in the absence of such rules.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in
bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [
in brackets and struckthrough.
]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-2815
06/07

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
relative to customer energy storage.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Paragraph; Customer Energy Storage; Definition of Department Added. Amend RSA 374-H:1 by inserting after paragraph II the following paragraph:
II-a. "Department" means the department of energy.

2 Customer Energy Storage; Customer Energy Storage Systems. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 374-H:2, I to read as follows:
I. The [
commission
]
department
shall adopt rules [
or approve tariffs
] clarifying policy for the installation[
,
]
and
interconnection[
, and use
] of energy storage systems by customers of utilities,
while the commission may approve tariffs and issue orders in adjudicated proceedings that are consistent with such rules and pertain to the use of and utility compensation for such energy storage systems. The department and the commission
[
and
] shall incorporate the following principles into the rules
and orders, respectively
[
or approved tariffs
]:

3 Customer Energy Storage; Customer Energy Storage Systems. Amend RSA 374-H:2, II to read as follows:
II. Nothing in this section alters or supersedes [
either:

(a)
] the principles of net energy metering under RSA 362-A:9[
; or

(b) Any existing electrical permit requirements or any licensing or certification requirements for installers, manufacturers, or equipment
].

4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.