New Hampshire will probably cut its rebate program for small-scale, residential solar and wind projects, as I report in the Sunday Telegraph. (Read it here) The rebates will probably be cut in half, from a maximum of $6,000 (almost everybody gets the maximum) to $3,000.
The idea is to free up more money to help organizations [...]

I had to update my alternative-energy map: Wire Belt Co. of America today announced a 99-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system, the biggest in New Hampshire, has been placed atop its Londonderry site, next to the Manchester airport. That’s twice the size of the state’s two top systems, atop PSNH and Stonyfield headquarters.
The system, built by Nexamp [...]

One of the obstacles to individual solar power is that many people think the panels are kind of ugly. So it’s good news to read in the Portsmouth Herald that the Historic District in that city has OK’d rooftop panels on an apartment building that dates to 1805.
It’s hard to think of any New Hampshire [...]

Vermont has the nation’s first statewide feed-in tariff for solar power, that will eventually add 12.5 megawatts of peak power, or almost 1 percent of the state’s electric usage. Basically, people or companies participating will get paid an artificially high rate for the power they produce (30 cents per kilowatt-hour, about three times the rate [...]

A Maine company called GridSolar (mostly a guy named Richard Silkman, it seems) is pushing an idea to build scores or hundreds of 2-megawatt solar power plants alongside existing power lines throughout central and western Maine. In a filing filing with the utilities commission (here, PDF) claims this would make it unnecessary to build a proposed $1.4 billion upgrade to the state’s power grid, which is designed to accommodate alternative energy and increase reliability.