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Parties File Comments In CPCNH’s Complaint Case Against Eversource
In filed status updates Eversource recommended that the NHPUC close this docket, noting both that (1) the issues raised in Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire or CPCNH’s complaints are like those under discussion in other dockets and (2) that HB 385 shifted jurisdiction of complaints to the DOE and that CPCNH has filed a complaint under that new system.
In contrast, CPCNH asserted that the issued raised in this docket are distinct from those in other cases and that it did not receive a response to its offer to transfer this complaint to the DOE.
As background, this is a proceeding to consider complaint of Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire (CPCNH) against Eversource Energy, which the CPCNH accuses of being in violation of state law and regulations related to the provision of customer data. According to CPCNH, Eversource’s failures have “substantially delayed the launch of the Coalition’s power supply service for most of the month of April (thereby foregoing an estimated $4,380,000 in NH ratepayer potential cost savings) and have foreclosed the Coalition’s ability to serve Net Metered customers or to offer advanced rate structures (both of which the Coalition is capable of providing, as a power agency, having expended significant effort to contract for the requisite capabilities)…Eversource should not be allowed to use its monopoly franchise on electric distribution services to systematically advantage its default service by not providing comparable meter data and rate and billing options to CPA default service that it provides to its own default and/or distribution service as expected by the relevant law and PUC order.”
This complaint is like many other proceedings that seem related to the utilities’, particularly Eversource’s, ability or inability to provide customer usage data to municipal aggregators specifically in the case of net metering customers. This is holding up the implementation of municipal aggregation in the state.
DE 23-062 (Opened 06/13/2023)
(Complaint Against Public Service Company of New Hampshire d/b/a Eversource Energy)
