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Gov. Kelly Ayotte said Tuesday she is nominating four New Hampshire individuals to a number of top positions, including to the NH Supreme Court, chair of the PUC, BEA Commissioner and the state’s child advocate.
Imagine if you could save money on your electric bill by using a service provider to adjust your thermostats, switch your dishwasher or dryer on or off, or activate or deactivate your home electric vehicle charger, all as demand on the grid fluctuates.
All of these activities require flaggers who can direct traffic so the utility workers can do their pruning and digging. The objective is to keep the utility workers, and those passing by, as safe as possible.
As New Hampshire emerges from a long winter of ratepayer discontent, the hunt for blameworthy characters continues. Here are some nominations.
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.