D. Maurice KreisBusiness & Economy
Utility Regulation, Coen Brothers Style
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In visual terms, the most memorable thing about Fargo was the sight of Steve Buscemi’s dismembered body being fed into a tree chipper. It wasn’t exactly heartwarming family entertainment.
Energy
State Consumer Advocate Appeals PUC’s Energy Efficiency Ruling
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The state Consumer Advocate appealed the Public Utilities Commission’s earlier order rejecting a new three-year energy efficiency plan to the state Supreme Court Wednesday.
Business & Economy
Our ‘Precarious’ Grid: Trouble This Winter With Rolling Blackouts?
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You don’t need a Kremlinologist to understand my perspective on these things in my capacity as the state’s official advocate for residential utility customers. Rolling blackouts are a small but real possibility this winter.
Business & Economy
Rehearing Sought On Controversial PUC Energy Efficiency Order
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The state’s utilities, conservation groups, a social service agency and the state Consumer Advocate want the Public Utilities Commission to rehear an energy efficiency plan regulators rejected last month.
Grid
ISO-New England: Power Grid On Edge This Winter; Rolling Blackouts Possible
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ISO-New England officials Monday said if generators lack access to enough fuel, and a prolonged cold snap grips the region, rolling blackouts may be needed to prevent the entire grid from crashing.
Donald M. Kreis
Insult to Injury at the PUC
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Now I intend to put that superpower to its test. And, in so doing, I am going to get right in the face of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC).
Amory Lovins
The Hole at the Heart of the PUC’s Heartless Order on Energy Efficiency
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In New Hampshire, an agency like the PUC can’t make arbitrary decisions and it can’t make stuff up.
Energy
Why the PUC Nixed Liberty’s Fixed-Price Deal
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For gas customers of Liberty Utilities, it was a deal too good to be true.
Al-Azad Iqbal
Another Oopsie: This Time, It’s Liberty Utilities
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In fact, Liberty Utilities is asking the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to force customers to cover a $4 million error committed by its natural gas subsidiary in 2019 and 2020. And if you thought the flub committed by Eversource was a convoluted mess, wait till you get a load of this.
Feature
Eversource Makes Boo-Boo; Wants Customers to Pay
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Eversource threatened to take its toys and go home the other day. Its reason says a lot about the central issue confronting New Hampshire’s captive utility customers as we head into a winter of soaring energy prices.