Op-Ed
In the Dark at the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative
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“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.
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“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.
Now, Eversource wants to spend $400 million in Grafton and Coos Counties and seems to be hoping nobody, or almost nobody, will notice.
We who care about energy policy in New Hampshire – and, in particular, those of us who fight for the interests of ratepayers – owe a debt of gratitude to Rep. Michael Vose (R-Epping).
Neil Proudman, Tom Aspell, and Jeanie Forrester owe a letter of apology to every single one of Liberty Utilities’ 98,000 gas ratepayers in New Hampshire.