Promote Renewable Energy through the Electric Portfolio Standard (RPS) (EGU Action 2.1)

Implement New Hampshire's Renewable Portfolio Standard, enacted in 2007, which mandates that 23.8 percent of retail electricity sales to in-state customers be provided by renewable energy sources by 2025. The potential renewable generation capacity in New Hampshire alone is 4,447 megawatts (MW) with a generation potential of 12,819,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) by that date. The Renewable Portfolio Standard would capture nearly 3.5 million MWh of this potential with the following mix of renewable sources of in-state retail electricity sales: existing small hydro, 1%; existing biomass and landfill methane, 6.5%; new solar, 0.3%; and new other (wind, geothermal, tidal, etc.), 16%.