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Utility’s Default Service Rates Approved
The New Hampshire PUC issued an order approving Liberty’s August 1 2025 – January 31, 2025 default service rates.
“For a residential customer using 650 kWh per month, the result will be an increase in the monthly bill from $148.39 to $174.42, or $26.03 [17.54%] more, compared to the six-month period ending July 31, 2025.”
The updated rate for Liberty’s Small Customer Group is $0.12420 per kWh, up from $0.08416, and incorporates a $0.0950 per kWh RPS compliance charge.
On July 18, 2025 Liberty filed its compliance tariff.
The New Hampshire also issued a supplemental order of notice commencing the next phase of the proceeding and scheduling a hearing. This phase will consider whether; (1) Liberty’s purported $8.1 million Default Service reconciliation balance “has been properly calculated, and/or properly attributed to individual Liberty customers and/or classes of Liberty customers”; (2) Liberty has derived an accurate, final calculation of the balance; (3)providing refunds or assessing costs to Liberty customers is appropriate; and (4) “any Liberty shareholder responsibility… should be incurred”; and (5) “whether the resulting rates would be just and reasonable.”
