Energy
Gaslighting the Public about the Concord Gasholder
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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.
Energy
Time for Our Grid Operator To Ditch Delaware
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What’s more important to New Hampshire: An elite boarding school — or the nonprofit organization that runs all of New England’s high voltage transmission grid, oversees the buying and selling of electricity throughout the six-state region, and keeps our lights on?
Energy
Liking Twin States Clean Energy Connect is not the same as promising to pay for it
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The purpose of SB 307 is to cause the customers of New Hampshire’s electric distribution utilities – Eversource, Liberty, Unitil, and even the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative – to pay for the Twin States Clean Energy Link.
Energy
NHSaves May Yet Go Down the Drain
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But if you think this means the PUC has seen the light about energy efficiency, and has abandoned its hostility, as evidenced by its order two years ago that sought to eviscerate NHSaves, you are mistaken.
Energy
Welcome to the Annual Electricity Reliability Freak-Out
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“Electric customers should get used to rolling blackouts every now and again,” said no ratepayer advocate — ever. But if you are (as I am) New Hampshire’s ratepayer advocate, you might be tempted to make such a suggestion
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Please Don’t Help Me Pay for My Next Vacation
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My wife and I spent a lovely week in Paris back in July and, I regret to admit, you may have helped pay for it.
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Enough is Enough on Cate Street in Portsmouth
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In fact, as the state’s ratepayer advocate I find it downright refreshing that our state’s chief executive is willing to state forthrightly that it is time to stop infinitely funding public policy initiatives, even virtuous ones, via the electric bills paid by Granite Staters.
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Electricity: Sometimes Too Cheap NOT to Meter!
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Lewis Strauss famously proclaimed, in a 1954 speech, that — thanks to nuclear power — electricity would become “too cheap to meter.”
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New Transmission Line to Quebec? I Vote Yes.
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People tend to assume that I was an opponent of Northern Pass, Eversource’s ill-fated transmission project that died an ignominious death nearly four years ago. But it ain’t necessarily so.