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.
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A Charged Election at the NH Electric Co-op
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Electricity is really important – it’s an essential commodity these days, and it has grown notably expensive over the past couple of years. Ergo, the annual election at the Electric Co-op is important.
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Ratepayers, Eat Your Herring!
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It is not because of my fondness for my late grandmother’s chopped herring, though Marcel Proust would surely appreciate how vividly the memory lingers of that particular sweet and sour delight.
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The Ghost of Ayn Rand as a Climate Activist?
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Remember the time a famous architect secretly designed a public housing project, and then blew the place up because the complex was not built to his specifications?