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Eversource, Unitil, Liberty and NHEC brief committee on customer bills, reliability gains and storm costs
Summary
Eversource, Unitil, Liberty Utilities and the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative told the Science, Technology and Energy Committee that multi‑year investments in distribution, automation and vegetation management have reduced outage frequency and duration, but recent larger storms and new program requirements are increasing operational and capital pressures.
Four utility groups — Eversource, Unitil, Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) and the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative — briefed the Science, Technology and Energy Committee on Jan. 14 about reliability trends, bill components and storm costs.
What they own and do. Eversource emphasized it no longer owns generation and is a transmission and distribution company; the firm said default service power purchases are a direct pass‑through. Unitil and Liberty described combined electric and natural‑gas footprints; NHEC explained its cooperative, member‑owned governance and nonprofit model.
Customer bills and default service. Utilities walked members through bill components: default service (energy commodity), distribution…
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