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Power to the People is a column by Donald M. 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.
Our state’s biggest water utility is, in its own peculiar way, every bit as distinctive as our first-in-the-nation primary, our state motto, and our mountain with the world’s harshest weather.
Mayor Byron Champlin of Concord has some good news and some bad news for the electric ratepayers of his city and, by extension, for electric ratepayers everywhere in New Hampshire.
“Alton is always the first to go out, has the largest outage by percentage, and is the last town restored,” the disgruntled NHEC member continued.
Consumer Advocate Donald Kreis has formally asked the state’s utility regulators to conduct an investigation of the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NHEC).
Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. Eversource is coming for your money – lots of it.
Which of these engineers-turned-executives has the tougher job – Unitil Chairman and CEO Tom Meissner or NHEC President and CEO Alyssa Clemsen Roberts?
Phillips realized that a solar eclipse, particularly one that would be total across a swath of northern New England, would affect the region’s electric grid bigtime by curtailing the output of solar panels.
The bad news is that the trade group that represents the state’s building contractors does not want to give the buyers of new homes the energy efficiency they need.