D. Maurice KreisFeature
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.
Bob Backus
A Shakespearian Moment for New Hampshire Energy Policy
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Creating a state Department of Energy is a great idea, and not just for the reasons Bob Backus pursued it so quixotically.
Ye Olde Electric Utility Fights the Paradigm Shift
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The state’s investor-owned electric utilities are pushing House Bill 315 in an effort to thwart Community Power Aggregation (CPA).
energy efficiency
Regulators Postpone Decision on New Energy Efficiency Program
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Regulators postpone decision on new energy efficiency program
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Why I Still Don’t Want to Talk About Net Metering
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I avoid the topic because, as net metering has matured from monkeywrenching to moneymaking, the financial realities arguably pit one group of residential customers against each other.
Consumer advoate
This Revolution Will Probably Not Be Televised
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Power to the People is a 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.
D. Maurice Kreis
The PUC Gets a Really Bad Letter
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The complaining House members – many if not most of them sincere and longstanding opponents of ratepayer-funded energy efficiency — are right to draw attention to the significant increase the utilities are proposing to the size and scope of the NHSaves programs. But they draw precisely the wrong conclusion.
Business & Economy
Meet the Monopoly Smashers of the ‘Local Government Coalition’
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Ever so quietly, a battle for the soul of New Hampshire’s electricity grid is raging.
Featured in Category
Utility Regulation Gone Awry: A Crash Course
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Power to the People is a 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.