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CONCORD — Eversource informed the Public Utilities Commission Monday that it will file a revised proposal to purchase natural gas capacity from the Access Northeast proposed pipeline. Eversource also asked regulators to vacate their order denying a Power Purchase Agreement with Hydro-Quebec included in the Northern Pass Transmission proposal.
The information includes a pricing summary as well as detailed costs components for the underground sections of the proposed $1.6 billion, 192-mile transmission line from Pittsburg to Deerfield.
The Department of Energy said it would seek new leadership for Los Alamos National Laboratory. But the University of California is still there, even after mismanagement caused it to lose its contract to run the lab — twice. The contract could be worth upward of $25 billion over the next decade, with hundreds of millions of dollars more in performance-based bonus fees.
The PUC’s October 2016 decision prevented Eversource from entering a 20-year agreement with Algonquin Gas that would have expanded an existing natural gas pipeline through the Access Northeast project. The PUC said the proposal violated the state’s electric deregulation statutes, but the court disagreed.
The date was August 5, 1988. Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) had recently declared bankruptcy, the first electric utility in the U.S. to do that since the Great Depression. The crushing debt and massive cost overruns associated with the Seabrook nuclear power plant had sucked PSNH dry.
CONCORD — State utility regulators voted 7-0 on Thursday to reject a motion to reconsider their decision turning down the $1.6 billion, 192-mile Northern Pass Transmission project.
CONCORD — State utility regulators will decide Thursday if they made a mistake denying Northern Pass’s application for a 192-mile, $1.6 billion, high-voltage transmission line from Pittsburg to Deerfield.
CONCORD — The state Supreme Court Tuesday determined state utility regulators erred in rejecting Eversource’s proposed 20-year agreement to reserve natural gas capacity on a proposed pipeline.
For more than seven years, New Hampshire has spoken loudly and with a unified voice that it does not want Northern Pass. The SEC members agreed with us, and I applaud their decision.