Community Power Committee

Waterville Valley Community Power Committee Overview

The Community Power Committee is an 8-Member Committee formally established by the Select Board on September 14, 2022.

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The Town of Waterville Valley will develop and implement its Community Power (Municipal Aggregation) Program (“Program”) as described in this Community Power Plan (“Plan”) as enabled by RSA 53-E:6. The Plan reserves the right to use the name ‘Waterville Valley
Community Power’ as reserved for such plans in RSA 53-E:3-b, but based on public input regarding transparency and accessibility has chosen the name of ‘Waterville Valley Electric Power Plan’ for this document. All of the intended uses of this Plan and program are confined to
Community Power as defined in RSA 53-E.

The vision for the Waterville Valley Community Power Program is: to provide our community with affordable, reliable and renewable energy resources.

Mission: Our mission is to empower our neighbors to make informed energy choices.
Goals:

• Establish a default electricity supply product that delivers competitive rates,uses more renewable energy, and supports the growth of local, renewable energy.
• Provide residents competitive rates with a variety of plan options while ensuring consumer protections.
• Establish a plan that creates resilience and self-sufficiency for our community in power procurement and use, and the development of local renewable sources.
• Create a fund that helps grow local, renewable energy projects and energy efficiency.
• Engage residents and allocate consistent application of the program.
• Engage with legislators to encourage town-friendly legislation on issues such as distributed energy, net metering, energy efficiency, resilience, and self-sufficiency.
• Increase residents’ understanding of their energy usage, to include quantity used as well as impact of energy sources and the value of efficiency.

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