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.
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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.
Creating a state Department of Energy is a great idea, and not just for the reasons Bob Backus pursued it so quixotically.
The state’s investor-owned electric utilities are pushing House Bill 315 in an effort to thwart Community Power Aggregation (CPA).
Regulators postpone decision on new energy efficiency program
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.
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.
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.
Ever so quietly, a battle for the soul of New Hampshire’s electricity grid is raging.
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.
Warm congratulations to Mark Vannoy on becoming the newest member of the ISO New England Board of Directors. The rest of this column explains why his election is bad news for New England’s electric ratepayers.
Please pay your electric bill! Ditto for your natural gas bill, if you’re a natural gas customer.