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The Water Smells: A David and Goliath Story
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Her friendly neighborhood investor-owned water company, Abenaki, is seeking a whopping big rate increase of 427 percent.
Al-Azad Iqbal
A Peek Beneath the Hood of a Utility Rate Case
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If there is a fundamental truth that applies to ratepayer advocacy, it is this: The customer has the only wallet in the room.
Energy
Update: A Megawatt Mea Culpa from the Consumer Advocate
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Residential ratepayers of New Hampshire, as the person tasked by statute with advancing your interests, I have made a colossal blunder. Please accept my apology, along with the following explanation.
The Electric Co-op Cash Cometh
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It only took 82 years and it’s only four million bucks – a relatively modest sum for an electric utility that collected $141 million in revenue from its customers last year.
Book Report: Solla Sollew and Shorting the Grid
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In this 1965 kid-lit epic, the protagonist resolves to shed his everyday troubles by hitching a ride with a passing stranger to the mythical metropolis of Solla Sollew – where, the traveler assures him, “they never have troubles – at least very few.”
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An Unconstitutional Bill from the Negawatt Naysayers
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Ratepayer-funded energy efficiency is officially in crisis here in New Hampshire.
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Coming Attractions: More Transmission Lines, More Gas Pipelines = More of Your Money
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Hold on to your wallets, fellow residential ratepayers! The opportunists are coming, and they’re waving the flags of Texas and California.
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Trouble in Texas: Could it Happen Here?
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Whenever the lights go out, I reach for my smartphone. And it’s not to call in the outage to my electric utility.
Bob Backus
A Shakespearian Moment for New Hampshire Energy Policy
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Creating a state Department of Energy is a great idea, and not just for the reasons Bob Backus pursued it so quixotically.
Ye Olde Electric Utility Fights the Paradigm Shift
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The state’s investor-owned electric utilities are pushing House Bill 315 in an effort to thwart Community Power Aggregation (CPA).