Energy Commission Minutes
Minutes of 2/18/2026
February 18th, 2026
Carroll Energy Commission Minutes
Meeting of February 18, 2026 @ 5:00 p.m.
Carroll Town Hall
The Carroll Energy Commission mission is to advise, encourage, and facilitate energy conservation, energy efficiency, and clear energy solution for public building and properties, businesses, and resident homes. The Commission shall provide leadership and direction for community education relating to energy and shall propose and explore funding for local energy projects.
These minutes of the Town of Carroll Energy Commission have been documented by its Secretary. Though believed to be accurate and correct, they are subject to additions, deletions, and corrections by the Energy Commission at its next meeting when the Commission votes its final approval of the minutes. They are being made available at this time to conform to the requirements of New Hampshire RSA 91-A:2.
The meeting was called to order at 5:00 p.m. by Chair Szauter.
Commission members in attendance: Chair Imre Szauter, Secretary Karen Moran, Member and Select Board representative Brian Mycko, Vice Chair Bill Vecchio. Member John Greer was unavailable.
Chair invited all attendees to rise and join in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Minutes of the January 14, 2026 Carroll Energy Commission meeting: Member Mycko motioned to approve the minutes of the January 14, 2026 meeting as written, Vice Chair Vecchio seconded. All were in favor. Minutes were approved as written.
New Business:
1. NHSaves Button Up Workshop on March 31, 2026 at 6:00pm, in the Town Hall Community room. Vice Chair Vecchio noted Robbin Adams from PAREI (Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative) contacted him about interest in the workshop. Vice Chair Vecchio stated Carroll’s interest. He contacted Bethlehem, will contact Salmon Press (next week) to advertise the workshop and Member Mycko offered to upload to Facebook community pages for Carroll, Bethlehem, Littleton, Franconia, Whitefield. Posters will be displayed around town as the date approaches.
2. Regarding the Eversource streetlights: Chair Szauter noted the Large Power Billing (LPB) system issues from Eversource appear to be resolved. A credit of $682.40 was included in the most recent invoice, after Chair Szauter and Eversource agreed on corrections to invoices from 3/2025 through current, for over-charges. Chair suggested calling Eversource each month on the first business day to request a PDF of the LPB invoice so it can be given to the Town Office and Treasurer for timely payment. LPB are paper only, and typically received late. Chair acknowledged Secretary Moran’s suggestion of utilizing the NH Department of Energy Consumer Services division was helpful.
3. Regarding the NH DoE Commercial and Industrial Incentive: Chair informed the Commission that the incentive we included in the warrant ($10,000) was not available. The program closed June 30, 2025, and our application was not in the queue. After discussion, Member Mycko suggested contacting the NH Municipal Association for clarification of how to handle the lack of anticipated funding. The grant was part of the solar array warrant approved by voters. Passage of HB2 which closed the grant program was outside of the Carroll Energy Commission’s control. An email from SolarRebate@Energy.nh.gov on 1/6/2026 informed the Chair that the Town’s application for the $10,000 grant was not on file. Chair agreed to contact the NH Municipal Association.
Old Business:
1. Knollwood Energy REC contract modification: Chair Szauter summarized the timeline of the Town Attorney contact, questions, responses regarding the contract; Chair spoke with the attorney last week (with Selectboard authorization). Three suggestions for clarification of the contact were: inclusion of an indemnification clause (language per Primex, town insurer), adjustment of “state of NJ to state of NH”, and a termination for cause clause. Chair will contact Knollwood about the termination for cause (with either 30 or 60 days’ notice), as they agree with the first 2 suggested edits. Once clarified, Chair suggested the Commission review the edited contract before sending to the Selectboard for approval.
2. Regarding the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Elective Pay for Solar PV array project: Chair Szauter noted IRS approved the application and the registration was provided on 12/10/2025. Anita Greer was not available to discuss filing the 3 forms required (#990-T, #3800, and additional one for solar projects that began in 2025), but it may be possible to file by 5/15/2026 without the need for requesting a six-month extension
3. Regarding the Walden Renewables contact: Vice Chair Vecchio and Member Mycko discussed waiting until the Spring since Walden has not responded, and also about contacting Revision Energy to gauge any interest in additional solar arrays.
4. Regarding REC reporting complication: Chair Szauter noted that Jack Bingham continues to manually upload solar details, as the automated system Barrington Solar is building is still in progress. The system associated initially with the Public Safety Building, is no longer supported by the Company that installed the software.
5. Regarding the Public Safety Building Municipal Solar Program project: Chair Szauter provided the Commission with an updated table of generation, usage, purchases from inception through 2/8/2026. Despite low generation in November, December, and January due to snow cover, the project continues as estimated, generation of 60 MWh per year. Usage is stable year over year. “Inverter malfunction” messages Chair can view are caused by the snow covering the panels, not actual malfunctions.
6. Regarding the three streetlights on Rosebrook Lane: Town continues to pay for the three high pressure sodium streetlights on Rosebrook Lane. Vice Chair indicated the Selectboard Chair, Bonnie Moroney, will review Selectboard minutes again, with assistance from Rena Vecchio, member of the Twin Mountain/Bretton Woods Historical Society. Minutes from 1984 – 2002 are paper archives only. Chair suggested Commission members could assist by reviewing certain years, if that would be helpful. Overall focus is still to determine ownership of the road, Town or Homeowners Association.
7. Regarding C-PACER: Vice Chair Vecchio attended a meeting in Conway. That municipality is waiting for the results of SB440, (2026 Legislative session) a bill “Relative to the adoption of energy efficiency and clean energy districts by municipalities”, that will allow Selectboards rather than a town-wide vote to establish the C-PACER district.
Other:
1. Vice Chair will attend a webinar 2/20/2026 regarding SB538, a bill “extending net metering eligibility terms for municipal energy projects”; reviewed Franconia Energy Commission minutes: discussed “How to Read a Utility Bill” presentation by Matt Kohler. Vice Chair noted that reviewing interval data would be a helpful tool to determine if a building is operating as anticipated.
Chair Szauter reminded members the next regularly-scheduled Energy Commission meeting will be March 11, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. in the Town Hall Conference Room.
With no additional items for discussion, Chair Szauter entertained a motion for adjournment. Member Mycko motioned to adjourn. Vice Chair Vecchio seconded the motion. With no additional discussion, the motion passed unanimously and the meeting was adjourned at 6:05 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Karen Moran, Secretary
Carroll Energy Commission
John Greer, Member, 2025-2028
Karen Moran, Member, 2025-2028
Brian Mycko, Member and Select Board representative, 2023-2026
Imre Szauter, Chair, 2024-2027
Bill Vecchio, Vice Chair, 2023-2026
Note: terms end on October 1 of the listed year