Electricity Supply Rate Costs in New Hampshire to Increase 19% - Granite Grok

Electricity Supply Rate Costs in New Hampshire to Increase 19%

Greening EnergyThe State Public Utilities Commission has approved a request by Eversource for a 19.1% hike in energy supply charges, according to the Union Leader.

The Public Utilities Commission approved the supply charge to go up from the current 7.903 cents per kilowatt hour to 9.412 cents.

This is a direct pass-through for the price of generated power with no profit going to the utility, Eversource officials said Friday.

And who can we think of that has been at the forefront of ramming expensive uncompetitive energy down our throats?

Democrats. Republicans. Just about everyone. Although, kudos once again to Gov. Sununu for vetoes on two bills this month that would have made matters worse. A Band-aid on the gaping wound.

Eversource, playing along like they have any other choice, urges customers,

“to make full use of our energy efficiency programs to help reduce their usage, tighten up their homes and keep their energy bills down,” said Penni Conner, Eversource senior vice president and chief customer officer. “Our energy efficiency specialists are ready to help find solutions so customers can better manage their energy use year-round.”

There’s not much else they can do.

For the better part of ten years, beginning back in 2006 when Democrats controlled all of State Government, ratepayers have been on the progressive policy whipping block. RGGI and renewable standards portfolios crafted in distant progressive bivouacs were pounded into state law where they remain embedded in our electric rates. Every effort to alter or remove them is met with the wailing of liberals bearing rhetorical sandwich boards proclaiming the end of times.

Along the way, they’ve worked to shutter existing facilities while simultaneously protesting anything that could replace them that might actually be efficient, useful, and affordable.

Even Hydro, (which is green) is a no-go. Natural Gas, which is responsible almost entirely on its own for reducing those awful, (or so we are told) horrible CO2 emission nationwide and in New England shall not pass. Pipelines are bad. Moving oil or gas by rail is bad. Cheap abundant Energy is bad.

Rationing is the key to enlightenment except when it comes to a government budget.

And don’t forget. No matter what we do, we are chain-ganged to the New England grid. Just look at the progressive tax-and-spend states fore and aft on your march toward the Democrat-Socialist’s green energy paradise and accept the inevitable. If you get ‘suicidal” call your efficiency councilor at the ministry of less is more and breath. Namaste.

You could move.

You might have to if your job leaves the state because the legislature is incapable of embracing policy that advances an affordable, reliable energy future.

If you do leave, do us all a favor and take at least two liberals with you. Drop them off far enough away that they won’t accidentally find their way back. Someplace blue where they sacrifice unborn babies at the base of wind power idols or in the shadow of solar shrines.

I wonder if Eversource would consider a fund for this purpose.  “Donate 2$ from your bill to fly a progressive to utopia.”

How much is a one-way Ticket to California?

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