D. Maurice KreisAs Maine Goes, So Goes New Hampshire?
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Bastille Day is nigh, and ratepayers in Maine are storming the gates of the fortress with torches and pitchforks.
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The Water Smells: A David and Goliath Story
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Her friendly neighborhood investor-owned water company, Abenaki, is seeking a whopping big rate increase of 427 percent.
Al-Azad Iqbal
A Peek Beneath the Hood of a Utility Rate Case
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If there is a fundamental truth that applies to ratepayer advocacy, it is this: The customer has the only wallet in the room.
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Update: A Megawatt Mea Culpa from the Consumer Advocate
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Residential ratepayers of New Hampshire, as the person tasked by statute with advancing your interests, I have made a colossal blunder. Please accept my apology, along with the following explanation.
The Electric Co-op Cash Cometh
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It only took 82 years and it’s only four million bucks – a relatively modest sum for an electric utility that collected $141 million in revenue from its customers last year.
Book Report: Solla Sollew and Shorting the Grid
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In this 1965 kid-lit epic, the protagonist resolves to shed his everyday troubles by hitching a ride with a passing stranger to the mythical metropolis of Solla Sollew – where, the traveler assures him, “they never have troubles – at least very few.”
Don Kreis is a Big Picture Guy with Eyes on the Prize
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If you are one of the many people who find their eyes glazing over when people begin talking about utility law, the Grid, Megawatts, Negawatts and other such terminology you may be tempted to skip listening to this Podcast with NH’s Consumer Advocate Don Kreis.
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An Unconstitutional Bill from the Negawatt Naysayers
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Ratepayer-funded energy efficiency is officially in crisis here in New Hampshire.
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Coming Attractions: More Transmission Lines, More Gas Pipelines = More of Your Money
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Hold on to your wallets, fellow residential ratepayers! The opportunists are coming, and they’re waving the flags of Texas and California.
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Trouble in Texas: Could it Happen Here?
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Whenever the lights go out, I reach for my smartphone. And it’s not to call in the outage to my electric utility.