GOP House member presses wrong button and Sununu veto is overridden with no votes to spare

CONCORD — A fierce lobbying campaign by wood energy advocates had the desired effect on Thursday, as lawmakers in the House and Senate voted to override Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto of a bill designed to help sustain the state’s six wood-burning power plants and the forestry industry.

The governor’s veto of a bill to encourage large-scale solar energy projects for businesses and municipalities was upheld.

Sununu vetoed the two renewable energy bills in June, citing their cost to electric ratepayers and stating they’d send New Hampshire “in exactly the wrong direction.”

Senate Bill 365 requires Eversource and other utilities to pay above-market rates to the state’s six biomass (wood-burning) power plants, the cost of which is passed along to consumers in their electric bills.

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