If you think it is high now, just wait.
In May 2007, New Hampshire adopted a renewable portfolio standard that requires 25 percent of the State’s electricity to be generated from renewable sources by 2025.
http://www.eia.gov/state/state-energy-profiles.cfm?sid=NH
Nuclear is about 1/2 your electrical generation.
http://www.eia.gov/state/state-energy-profiles-data.cfm?sid=NH#Reserves
The real interesting thing is you generate about twice what you use.
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_1_6_b
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_4_b
Yet of your neighbors, only Connecticut pays more.
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_6_a
“In May 2007, New Hampshire adopted a renewable portfolio standard that requires 25 percent of the State’s electricity to be generated from renewable sources by 2025.”
Wind mills are going up all over the White Mtns.
Also, there are at least 2 biomass(wood chips) electric generating plants in NH. They will probably build several more of those. There is plenty of wood fiber that gets disposed of here in NH. You can’t give white pine logs away now unless they are sawmill quality(20+” in dia.)