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D. Maurice KreisPower to the People is a new column by D. Maurice 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.
Four economists have submitted written expert testimony in that docket, in which the PUC is considering Eversource’s request to hike its distribution charges by a whopping 47 percent for residential customers.
Circle February 1 on your calendar if you are an electricity customer in New Hampshire. The price of electricity is changing and many Granite Staters risk losing out on the best possible price. Beware!
Utility regulation in New Hampshire is broken. Exhibit A for that proposition is the endless squabbling at the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) over net metering.
One sure sign of a sore loser is the sight of someone trying to change the rules of the game as defeat looms.
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.
State utility regulators voted to prohibit New Hampshire and Maine consumer advocates from participating in a review of a $385 million transmission line upgrade that has drawn criticism from officials, advocates, and property owners and residents along the 49-mile project.
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.
Federal, regional and local electric industry officials and regulators failed to do their duties to ensure fair and reasonable electric rates, a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court claims.
“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.