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D. Maurice KreisPower 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.
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.”
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.
Ratepayer-funded energy efficiency is officially in crisis here in New Hampshire.
Hold on to your wallets, fellow residential ratepayers! The opportunists are coming, and they’re waving the flags of Texas and California.
Whenever the lights go out, I reach for my smartphone. And it’s not to call in the outage to my electric utility.
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.