Energy Costs And Grid Vulnerabilities Threaten Reliability

The Challenge: New Hampshire residents pay among the highest electricity rates ( https://isonewswire.com/2026/02/25/monthly-wholesale-electricity-prices-and-demand-in-new-england-january-2026/ ) in the country, and the regional grid is heavily dependent on imported power and fossil fuels during peak winter demand creating concerns for costs and long-term reliability. What do New Hampshire residents think? Contributors described concerns about both the affordability and the resilience of the state’s energy system. One contributor put it simply: “Electric costs are too high.” Another framed the resilience side: “Energy resilience — both cost and grid stability — is a crisis.” On hardening, one contributor wrote: “Three threats could cripple our region: EMP, CME, and cyber threats. We need to harden our infrastructure against these threats.” Others pointed to clean-energy options as part of the answer. One contributor wrote: “The Granite State should be offering homeowners and the businesses that do installation, incentives to install solar power. The more we can encourage homeowners to do that, the more stress relief on the entire system we would create.” Another called for a market-based approach: “New Hampshire needs to figure out a market-based way to encourage renewable energy and nuclear power that doesn’t rely on subsidies and can’t be gate-kept by utilities.” Across responses, contributors described energy as both an immediate cost concern and a longer-term infrastructure question.