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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.
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.
“[I]t is the utility that must operate the system in the dark of night,” bemoaned the Granite State’s biggest electric distribution utility, through its lawyer.
Maybe, just maybe, after paying hundreds of millions of dollars and waiting 24 years, New Hampshire’s residential utility customers are about to get some real benefits out of the 1996 Restructuring Act. But not if Eversource has anything to say about it.
Net Metering? It’s geeky, yes, but if you care about saving costs, it’s worth knowing about.
As with every fight over net metering, this is really a struggle between the solar industry and those who think solar panels are unfairly subsidized.
Oh, and did I mention operating costs? Here’s just a snippet. Eversource wants you to pay for millions and millions of bonuses paid to retiring executives.