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New Hampshire doesn’t care about who owns its public utilities. But maybe it should.
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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.”