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NH Electric Customers Should Demand Their Data
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It knows if you’ve been bad or good (e.g., whether you’ve been using a big light array to grow marijuana in the basement).
InDepthNH.org (http://indepthnh.org/series/power-to-the-people/)
Power to the People is a new column by D. Maurice Kreis, New Hampshire’s Consumer Advocate. Kreis and his staff of four represent the interests of residential utility customers before the NH Public Utilities Commission and elsewhere.
It knows if you’ve been bad or good (e.g., whether you’ve been using a big light array to grow marijuana in the basement).
New Hampshire is currently ranked a dismal 21st when it comes to energy efficiency – last in the northeast.
Will participating customers succeed in saving money? We don’t know.
Travis Kavulla, an outspoken utility commissioner from Montana, put it succinctly the other day on Twitter. “Rate base is a hell of a drug,” he tweeted.
Should you be afraid for your wallet?
You literally have to go south of the Mason-Dixon Line to find a state with a worse ranking than NH.
The vote will be September 13 on whether to override the Governor’s veto Senate Bill 365.
How much will you save on your electric bill if Gov. Sununu’s veto stands?
Cost-of-service rate treatment is exactly what we supposedly got away from by restructuring the electric industry to eliminate old-fashioned, vertically integrated utility monopolies. The parade of generators begging for a return to the good old days could well include facilities like Seabrook, Merrimack and Schiller stations.
What NEPOOL is voting on Tuesday would allow journalists to attend NEPOOL meetings upon payment of $5,000 per year.