D. Maurice KreisFeature
Buyer Beware, Electricity Customers!
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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!
Op-Ed
The Imperial PUC Takes on Net Metering, Again
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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.
Energy
Eversource Gets Credit Rating Downgrade; Consumer Advocate Calls Response a Bit of Spin
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On Monday, S&P Global Ratings lowered the long-term issuer credit on the state’s largest utility, Eversource, from A- to BBB+.
Feature
Liberty Utilities Gets Tree’d
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One sure sign of a sore loser is the sight of someone trying to change the rules of the game as defeat looms.
Energy
You Say K-Bar, I Say FUBAR: Eversource Woos the PUC
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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.
Energy
No Room at the Table for Utility Consumer Advocates on $400M Project
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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.
Feature
Reverse-Robinhoodism in Greater Nashua
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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.
Op-Ed
Community Power in Concord: Mayor Culpa
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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.
Business & Economy
Transmission Projects Costing Billions Flow Directly to Ratepayers’ Bills
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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.
Op-Ed
In the Dark at the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative
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“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.