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This bill aims to enhance New Hampshire's energy resilience and technological advancements by establishing a task force to study port electrification, which involves identifying technologies and locations for charging infrastructure, energy supply, and storage for ships and portside power, and assessing regulations, costs, funding, and transmission needs, with a report due by June 30, 2027. It also mandates an investigation into microgrid development, defining a microgrid as a controllable energy system that can operate independently from the main grid to improve reliability and potentially reduce costs, and this investigation will examine financing, suitable locations, regulatory approaches, and cybersecurity standards, with findings to be reported within a year. Furthermore, the bill requires the Department of Energy to develop guidelines or standards for cybersecurity for distributed energy resources, such as solar panels and battery storage, and mandates that public water systems and wastewater treatment facilities implement cybersecurity protection programs to safeguard their computer systems and networks, with exemptions for facilities not using internet-connected control systems.

Agriculture and Natural Resources, Business and Industry

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