Power to the People: The PUC Gets a Really Bad Letter
By D. Maurice Kreis Our pandemic-ravaged state could use some additional economic stimulus right about now. So far, Congress has not been inclined to deliver the goods. So what if we could do something on the state level? Say, for example, injecting $350 million into the New Hampshire economy over the next three years, most of it spent in a manner that puts local people to work? And what if the net effect of that spending were to save money for every customer of an electric or natural gas utility? That’s exactly the proposal now pending at the Public Utilities Commission (PUC)—and it’s exactly what …