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Franklin Pierce University celebrated the latest effort to help the institution reduce its carbon footprint with a ribbon-cutting ceremony April 21 to celebrate the installation of solar panels on the roof of the fieldhouse.The project was spearheaded...

In his recent My Turn (Monitor, 1/16), Dan Weeks presents three policies New Hampshire lawmakers should consider to protect New Hampshires environment. 1) Take a pass on plastic. 2) A new feat in heat. 3) Harness the sun. I would like to expand on...

The ConVal solar project, which has been in the works for almost four years, finally began construction in 2021.ReVision Energy began installation on the 247-kilowatt array of 555 panels on the ConVal High School roof in late fall. Through a Power...

Good news on solar, with lots of room for growthThis is a response to the letter from John Last of Pembroke (Clean Energy Creates Economic Growth, Oct. 3). Coincidentally, Mr. Last’s letter appeared in the same Monitor edition as the story in the...

Long List of NH Businesses Oppose HB-544 in NH Legislature Share Updated: 6:58 AM EDT Apr 11, 2021 Fred Kocher Long List of NH Businesses Oppose HB-544 in NH Legislature Share Updated: 6:58 AM EDT Apr 11, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript >> WELCOME TO NEW HAMPSHIRES BUSINESS, IM FRED KOCHER. ITS AN UNCOMMON OCCURRENCE AT THE STATE HOUSE THAT A LONG LIST OF BUSINESSES WILL LINE UP IN FAVOR OR IN OPPOSITION TO A BILL. WELL, THATS HAPPENED WITH HOUSE ...

Betty Tamposi and Dan Weeks In a democratic republic like the United States, voters are meant to choose their politicians, not the other way around.   Like many of our fellow Granite Staters, we take free and fair elections personally. One of us served for years as a Republican leader in the NH House of Representatives and later as an Assistant Secretary of State under President George H.W. Bush. The other was a Democratic nominee for Executive Council (raised in a long line of Republican el...

Letter: It’s time for lawmakers to take off fossil-fuel blinders Published: 2/7/2021 12:01:15 AM Dan Weeks’s Feb. 2 Monitor “My Turn,” by addressing a “Memo to policymakers: Let solar compete,” shined welcome light on the dismal state of energy-related legislative affairs in Concord. In his piece, Weeks points out that New Hampshire is behind our neighbors in terms of allowing what is becoming the least-expensive form of energy (solar) to flourish. Progress isn’t made by looking ...

My Turn: Memo to policymakers: Let solar compete Published: 2/2/2021 6:30:08 AM I was recently called up before a New Hampshire town zoning board to seek a variance for a solar project my company installed for a local family farm. Apparently someone in town had driven by while we were constructing the 140-panel array and complained to town officials. Although we had been granted the required zoning permits many months ago, we were told to seek a variance on the grounds that solar panels in a fi...