Posts by Donald M. Kreis
I’m not the fictional Captain Ahab, the monomaniacal sea captain invented by author Herman Melville in the great American novel from the Nineteenth Century, Moby-Dick. Rather than hunt whales, I am firmly planted here on land and the target of my harpoon is bloated utility ROE.
What we have here is a moral and civic good. The humans who learn and work in this bright new building cannot help but absorb the message that their community respects and values what happens there.
Readers of this column are an astute and empowered lot. It turns out that many of you took me seriously when I promised, in the last installment, that I would have some suggestions for what New Hampshire ratepayers could do in the face of looming increases to their electric bills.
What can we do about these dismal developments? That’s the subject of a future column but – spoiler alert – there are no easy answers and those who peddle such answers are mistaken. In the meantime, sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
If you’re an Eversource customer, you’re probably wondering: If this is the first rate case in a decade, why has my electric bill been increasing over the past 10 years?
These New Hampshire utilities are part of Green Button’s “download my data” program. What’s needed is the next step – the Green Button “connect my data” standard, which facilities third party access to the information.
Addressing an audience at the annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland the other day, the Swedish teenager complained about the laconic response of her planetary elders to the climate crisis.
Happy New Year! Here are 10 great ideas for 2019, for those who care about the plight of New Hampshire’s residential utility customers.
The institutions that employ these nice people, however, are perfectly okay with a state that ranks a dismal 21st among the 51 states (and the District of Columbia) when it comes to energy efficiency. The ranking is from the highly respected American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. It means that New Hampshire is dead last among states in the northeast above the Mason-Dixon Line. This is unacceptable.
The Granite State’s disappointing record when it comes to energy efficiency becomes downright outrageous when you consider that we lag behind every other New England state. You literally have to go south of the Mason-Dixon Line to find a state with a worse ranking than ours.