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The state’s largest utility Eversource argued before the Public Utilities Commission Tuesday to increase its rate as New Hampshire electric consumers brace for bills going up by about 50 percent for at least the next six months.
New Hampshire doesn’t care about who owns its public utilities. But maybe it should.
You are about to experience what is known in the trade as “rate shock.”
If there is a fundamental truth that applies to ratepayer advocacy, it is this: The customer has the only wallet in the room.
Ever so quietly, a battle for the soul of New Hampshire’s electricity grid is raging.
Travis Kavulla, an outspoken utility commissioner from Montana, put it succinctly the other day on Twitter. “Rate base is a hell of a drug,” he tweeted.
“We see here, Bob, that you spent 6.8 minutes in the bathroom on Oct. 8. Your neighbor across the way spent an average of 4.5 minutes.”