by David Brooks | Nov 21, 2025 | Newsletter
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by David Brooks | Nov 20, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A big (by NH standards, anyway) solar farm is coming to Warner but what’s really significant is that it is a community-solar project, with 11 municipalities signing on to get savings in their energy bill through New Hampshire’s group net metering program....
by David Brooks | Nov 20, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
That power line from Quebec to Maine may start working by the end of the year, now that Avangrid (part of Iberdrola Group) has secured the final permit for the New England Clean Energy Connect project. It is planning “energization” by end of this year. The...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is planning to issue the first-ever government bonds backed by Bitcoin, further marking the state as a leader when it comes to embracing cryptocurrencies. The move comes six months Gov. Ayotte signed a bill that made New Hampshire the first state with...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The United States is quietly heading into a massive change of the type we haven’t seen for 170 years. It sounds scary, but don’t worry: I’ve lived through it already, and it’s not so bad. We are discussing here the slow demise of the penny, the dark-brown coin beloved...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Maine Lobster Now, a direct-to-consumer seafood company, is pointing out the connection between warming oceans – Gulf of Maine temperatures are rising faster than in almost any other ocean body – and falling lobster catches. The 2024 catch was roughly 15%...