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As natural gas and, especially, electric rates have soared in recent months there is widespread concern that utilities, their shareholders, and their executives are profiting handsomely at the expense of struggling ratepayers.
Reading the recently issued New Hampshire 10-Year State Energy Strategy made me think of my new hero, the free-market economist Tyler Cowen.
However, New England electric ratepayers could collectively reduce their bills by $1.5 billion to $1 billion a year if there were no forward capacity component.
New Hampshire doesn’t care about who owns its public utilities. But maybe it should.
A pilot project with big implications.
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.
MANCHESTER — Unanimously, the House approved a bill, 343-0, that some called flawed, but would rescue the state’s energy efficiency program eliminated by the Public Utilities Commission ruling last year.
As Joni Mitchell sings, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone,” and she might as well be singing about the state’s energy efficiency program.
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.