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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.
The complaining House members – many if not most of them sincere and longstanding opponents of ratepayer-funded energy efficiency — are right to draw attention to the significant increase the utilities are proposing to the size and scope of the NHSaves programs. But they draw precisely the wrong conclusion.
Ever so quietly, a battle for the soul of New Hampshire’s electricity grid is raging.
Power to the People is a 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.
Warm congratulations to Mark Vannoy on becoming the newest member of the ISO New England Board of Directors. The rest of this column explains why his election is bad news for New England’s electric ratepayers.
Please pay your electric bill! Ditto for your natural gas bill, if you’re a natural gas customer.
You don’t have to be a ratepayer advocate to sit up and take notice when someone claims that Eversource’s electric customers in New Hampshire overpaid more than $19 million dollars last year.
That’s why I was so pleased to learn that Liberty Utilities has scrapped its $400 million-plus Granite Bridge project with a new edition that is better and cheaper.
CONCORD — The state’s electric utilities have a conceptual agreement not to disconnect low-income customers unable to pay their bills until next spring.
Utility consumers at risk of having their service disconnected for non-payment will have an opportunity to voice their concerns about ending the moratorium July 15.
The state Consumer Advocate wants state regulators to produce emergency rules on utility disconnections for customers failing to pay their bills.