# 2025-20784: FERC Accepts Ashuelot River Hydro Application and Invites Public Protests

2025-20784, Ashuelot River Hydro, Inc.; Notice of Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Motions To Intervene and Protests, is a Federal Register notice from Energy Department, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission published 2025-11-24, effective The deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests and requests for cooperating agency status: on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 15, 2025. Issue Ready for Environmental Analysis January 2026. (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20784
- Title: Ashuelot River Hydro, Inc.; Notice of Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Motions To Intervene and Protests
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Energy Department; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 52935
- Published: 2025-11-24
- Effective: The deadline for filing motions to intervene and protests and requests for cooperating agency status: on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 15, 2025. Issue Ready for Environmental Analysis January 2026.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

FERC Accepts Ashuelot River Hydro Application and Invites Public Protests

## Summary

Ashuelot River Hydro, Inc. wants to renew its license to keep running the Minnewawa Hydroelectric Project in New Hampshire. People who care about the project have until December 15, 2025, to speak up or join the conversation. This is a chance to help shape how clean energy flows in the community without any surprise costs right now.

## Effects PRIA read

- You can formally intervene by Dec 15, 2025: benefit, low. Anyone may file a protest or a motion to intervene in the Minnewawa Hydroelectric Project proceeding, but motions to intervene and protests must be received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 15, 2025. Only parties that file a motion to intervene may become a party to the proceeding.
- Project to run in run-of-river with 4 cfs minimum: benefit, low. Under the subsequent license, Ashuelot Hydro proposes to continue operating the Minnewawa Project in instantaneous run-of-river mode and to release a minimum flow of 4 cubic feet per second into the bypassed reach, measured immediately downstream from the Minnewawa Dam. This operational mode and mi…
- Proposal to add a 75-kW turbine unit: mixed, low. Ashuelot Hydro proposes to install a new 75-kilowatt fixed-geometry turbine-generator unit in the existing powerhouse in addition to the existing 1,000-kW unit; the project averaged 3,945 megawatt-hours per year from 2003 through 2023. If licensed as proposed, the project’s equipment and generation…
- Help is available to participate from FERC OPP: benefit, low. FERC's Office of Public Participation (OPP) can help members of the public — including landowners, community organizations, and Tribal members — access information and make filings like interventions or comments; contact OPP at (202) 502-6595 or [email protected].

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## Sources
- [2025-20784 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/24/2025-20784/ashuelot-river-hydro-inc-notice-of-application-accepted-for-filing-and-soliciting-motions-to)
- [2025-20784 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-24/pdf/2025-20784.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20784 (as of 2026-06-08).