ROUNDUP: Pappas Puts Energy Cost Solutions Front and Center for Granite Staters

MANCHESTER, NH — As affordability continues to dominate kitchen-table conversations across New Hampshire, Congressman Chris Pappas is fighting to lower energy costs for Granite Staters. From advancing legislation to lower utility costs for working families to championing clean, homegrown energy solutions, Pappas is laying out a people-first energy agenda focused on lowering costs today and building a more reliable and sustainable future. 

Pappas Visits Cedarcrest Center in Keene to Discuss Renewable Energy in Action

Congressman Pappas visited the Cedarcrest Center in Keene, which provides medical and educational support to children and young adults with complex needs, and is powered almost entirely by solar energy. The visit underscored how investments in renewable energy can help essential community institutions lower costs and reinvest savings directly into care and services. Pappas is standing up to the Trump Administration, which has spent the last year trying to roll back affordable energy tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act that would lower energy costs for small businesses and families.  

During the visit, Pappas met with Cedarcrest CEO Jay Hayston, Revision Energy Vice President of Business Development Dan Weeks, and Cedarcrest staff and students to hear how federal energy policy and clean energy incentives are helping organizations like Cedarcrest become more energy independent and financially resilient. 

Read highlights from the visit below:

“Learning more about the mission of Cedarcrest and just how connected you are to the greater community — it’s all really impressive,” Pappas said to the Cedarcrest team. “We’re seeing in real time how you’re working to meet the health care needs of New Hampshire, but also the creative initiative here with respect to energy that is really groundbreaking and is helping to solve a challenge both for you and for the larger community as well.”

“You know, one thing that’s neat about solar is it’s possible to deploy very quickly,” said Weeks. “When we think about America’s need for power, building new gas plants, you’re waiting at least five to seven years for the gas turbine, whereas, if the parties align and we get the permits in hand and utility approvals, the total installation time was about two months back here.”

“I’m sure you’ve heard about [our solar array] already, but it’s such a lovely public-private partnership in that we’re obviously interested in sustainability […] and we would not have been able to afford to build a solar array right now […] with what may come in ‘27 and ‘28 with the ‘big bill,’” said Hayston. “That kind of capital investment was not going to happen for us. But by partnering with Revision and with Bob [King], we were able to get access to a power purchase agreement that saves us a huge amount on our energy bill and helps us work with the city on green sustainability initiatives. It is just such a tremendous win all the way around.”

Sunrise Labs President Eric Soederberg Highlights Pappas’s Commitment to Affordable Energy

Union Leader: Letter: Progress under threat

To the Editor: Thanks to Congressman Chris Pappas’s work to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, New Hampshire has received millions of dollars in federal funding to help lower energy costs. Investments in solar and other clean energy projects, particularly in disadvantaged communities, have expanded access to affordable, sustainable energy that works alongside our natural beauty rather than against it.

That progress is now under threat.

Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” eliminated key renewable energy tax credits that helped communities transition to clean, independent energy while lowering costs. Slashing these incentives doesn’t just harm the environment — it drives up energy bills for working families and undercuts local businesses that rely on affordable, reliable power.

Congressman Pappas has stepped up to take on these challenges, fighting for bipartisan solutions that expand clean energy production and lower costs for working Granite Staters. By working to restore clean energy tax cuts and incentivize new energy production, he is focused on delivering the affordability families need today while building sustainable energy infrastructure for future generations.

Chris Pappas has delivered real results by supporting legislation to lower energy bills, create good-paying jobs, and strengthen our small business economy. Granite Staters should elect Chris Pappas to the U.S. Senate this November — our future depends on it.

ERIC SOEDERBERG

Bedford

Pappas Focused on Cutting Taxes, Costs for Granite Staters Like Juliana Phillips

Concord Monitor: Letter: Pappas fights to cut taxes, energy costs

Granite Staters know New England winters are tough — not just because of mornings spent shoveling snow and scraping ice, but because of the skyrocketing cost of keeping our homes warm. From heating oil and electricity, energy bills are squeezing household budgets across New Hampshire, especially in rural communities.

That’s why Congressman Pappas’s recently announced Energy Burden Tax Credit Act matters. This bill would deliver meaningful relief to working families who are spending an outsized share of their income just to power their homes. By helping offset these costs, Pappas is offering a commonsense solution to one of the biggest affordability challenges Granite Staters are facing.

Born and raised in Manchester, Pappas is a Granite Stater through and through. When New Hampshire families say they’re struggling with energy costs, he listens and takes action. He’s built a record of working across the aisle, standing up to special interests, and refusing corporate PAC money — because he answers to us, not corporate donors.

Here in Webster, even as neighbors are separated by forest and back roads, there’s a shared sense of responsibility that binds our community together. Chris Pappas reflects those New Hampshire values, with a clear focus on lowering costs and doing right by our working families. That leadership is exactly why we need to send him to the United States Senate in November.

JULIANA PHILLIPS

Webster

Sugar River President Bob King: Chris Pappas is the Candidate to Count On

Keene Sentinel: Reader Opinion: Vote for Pappas for our energy future, by Bob King

New Hampshire has an energy problem. Experts predict electricity demand will nearly double by 2050, driving up prices and exacerbating the cost-of-living crisis facing Granite Staters. Working families need relief, and they need a forward-looking energy policy that will put America on a path toward inexhaustible, reliable energy for the long term.

As congressman and candidate for the U.S. Senate, Chris Pappas knows we must pursue new sources of energy while looking at commonsense ways to lower our electric bills. Pappas recently introduced legislation that would provide short-term relief to families struggling to pay their monthly energy bills by creating a new energy tax credit. He’s fighting to improve energy transmission to reduce grid congestion, and working to keep utility bills down for veterans and military families.

For the long term, Pappas knows we need to increase energy efficiency and clean energy production to lower costs and protect our environment. He also knows adding natural gas infrastructure could take decades whereas adding, say, balcony solar takes weeks.

Donald Trump, with the support of congressional Republicans, has worked to take America’s clean energy sector backward. This administration has gutted policies aimed at lowering household energy costs. It eliminated tax credits that helped regular people make their homes more energy efficient, lowering their electric bills in the process. It cut funding for new sources of energy generation, including wind and solar, that would have helped transform our electric grid to meet increased demand in the coming decades.

In Keene and across New Hampshire, homeowners and businesses are having to reconsider planned solar installations following the elimination of tax credits. These policies not only hurt our climate, but also hurt American businesses. According to one estimate, the Trump administration’s cancellation of clean-energy funding resulted in 21,000 fewer jobs in 2025.

Trump is propping up Big Oil and doubling down on policies from a bygone era while our global adversaries, led by China, get rich off their multi-billion dollar clean energy industry. New Hampshire needs forward-looking leaders in Washington willing to stand up to Big Oil and bring our clean energy manufacturing back home. We need leaders like Chris Pappas, for our environment, our state and our nation.

Chris Pappas is the candidate for senator in 2026 that New Hampshire can count on to advance the lower cost, clean energy system of the future.

BOB KING

Keene

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