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NH Electric Customers Should Demand Their Data
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It knows if you’ve been bad or good (e.g., whether you’ve been using a big light array to grow marijuana in the basement).
InDepthNH.org (https://indepthnh.org/series/power-to-the-people/page/12)
Power 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.
It knows if you’ve been bad or good (e.g., whether you’ve been using a big light array to grow marijuana in the basement).
Moxie would be necessary for teenagers to participate meaningfully in PUC proceedings.
New Hampshire is currently ranked a dismal 21st when it comes to energy efficiency – last in the northeast.
Last session, lawmakers passed Senate Bill 365, which requires the state’s electric utilities to buy 100 percent of the output of seven wood-burning power plants.
Will participating customers succeed in saving money? We don’t know.
Travis Kavulla, an outspoken utility commissioner from Montana, put it succinctly the other day on Twitter. “Rate base is a hell of a drug,” he tweeted.
Should you be afraid for your wallet?
Prior to law school, Don Kreis spent a decade as a journalist with Associated Press and Maine Times.
You literally have to go south of the Mason-Dixon Line to find a state with a worse ranking than NH.
D. Maurice Kreis argues he is entitled to see the Burgess plant’s cost and profitability records.