The Select Board on Monday suspended efforts to launch a community power program

LANCASTER — The Select Board on Monday suspended efforts to launch a community power program. Acting on motions by a board  member, the board dissolved the Lancaster Energy Committee, withdrew from the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire, and removed its appointees to CPCNH. It comes less than a month after the Town Meeting rejected a community power plan, which would have allowed the town to sell wholesale power directly to residents. The committee’s charge was to draft a community power plan allowing the town to partner with an energy broker (like CPCNH) to sell wholesale electricity directly to residents if approved. CPCNH had pitched community power as a low-cost alternative to major utilities.