Third CLG meeting of 2025 features discussion of affordability and accountability; video available

Don Kreis, New Hampshire consumer advocate and CLG Coordinating Committee co-chair, served as moderator for the panel discussion.

The third Consumer Liaison Group (CLG) meeting of 2025 featured a panel discussion on “Affordability and Accountability: How the ISO and Power Generators Might Reshape Themselves for a Better Future,” as well as several question-and-answer sessions. 

A video recording and summary of the Sept. 11 meeting, held in Manchester, New Hampshire, are available online.  

The meeting began with remarks from Kendra Ford, a CLG Coordinating Committee member.  

Kile Adumene, Executive Director, Manchester Community Action Coalition (MCAC) provides the community welcome. 

Kile Adumene, executive director, Manchester Community Action Coalition (MCAC), and adjunct faculty, Southern New Hampshire University, provided a community welcome. 

Ari Peskoe, director, Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program, discussed “Imagining a New New England RTO” during the keynote address. 

Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program, provided the keynote address.  

From left, Sam-Evans Brown, Allison Bates Wannop, Henry Herndon, and Kris Pastoriza field questions during the afternoon panel. 

A panel discussion followed, featuring presentations and remarks from Sam Evans-Brown, executive director of Clean Energy New Hampshire; Henry Herndon, acting general manager at Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire; Allison Bates Wannop, an energy lawyer and distributed energy resources advocate from Vermont; and Kris Pastoriza, a grassroots activist from Easton, New Hampshire. Don Kreis, New Hampshire consumer advocate and CLG Coordinating Committee co-chair, served as moderator. 

ISO-NE Vice President Anne George provides a regional update. 

Anne George, vice president and chief external affairs and communications officer at ISO New England, shared a regional update that covered markets, operations, and system planning.

Neal Kurk asks a question during a question-and-answer session. 

The next CLG meeting is planned for Dec. 3, 2025, in Boston, Massachusetts, with a location to be announced. For the latest information on the meetings and to view past presentations, visit the Consumer Liaison Group webpage. 

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