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So which is it?

Shot: Concord Fishwrap – Eversource gets approval to sell its power plants

State energy regulators approved the sale of Eversource Energy power plants Friday, including Merrimack Station in Bow.

The nine hydro facilities and three fossil-fuel plants, including coal-fired Merrimack Station, Newington Station and Schiller Station in Portsmouth will be sold at auction overseen by the state Public Utilities Commission. New ownership is expected to save customers money by creating a more competitive market to generate power.

Chaser: UL – Eversource ordered to sell its power plants

The Public Utilities Commission handed down a long-awaited decision Friday on the fate of New Hampshire’s largest utility, ordering Eversource to sell off its power plants in a move that regulators hope will lower electricity prices in the long run by completing the deregulation of the electricity market that began 20 years ago.

Freaking Republican State Senator Jeb Bradley (you know, one of the Big Republican Bosses behind NH forced into Obamacare despite what the NH GOP says it believes in; just another adaptation that laws are for the ordinary schmucks) was the go-to-guy that decided that he and the rest of Government knew better how to manage the electricity marketplace than, you know, the folks actually in it.  Last time I looked, deregulation meant that generators and transmitters / carriers got to decide how to play in that marketplace themselves.  For instance, Eversource does transmit / carry my electricity but someone else handles the generation (or to be technically correct, purchasing the kWs I use).  That said, it is has been clear for years that the State of NH has had it in for Eversource and its generation plants.

You watch – this will not end well and at the end of the day, we’ll most likely have another stupendous example of Govt really mucking it up.

All that said – which is right?  Was the fix in and the PUC did order Eversource to sell?  Or just cleared to sell if they want?

My take on this is that the Fishwrap is, per usual, taking the side of Government and that is it just a tolerant and benevolent entity.  ALWAYS, the one size fits all mentality, belong to the collective outlook, is just dandy with them. The more, the bigger – the better. Mind your place, rubes and rednecks, so that you don’t get in the way of PROGRESS!  Be ye of only doubleplusgood cheer – Big Brother love you; why don’t you love him back?  After all, as the Dems say, Government is the one thing we all belong to.

Yeah, I know.

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