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Public Utilities Commission describes independent role, adjudicative process and relationship to DOE
Summary
PUC Chair Dan Goldner and commissioners briefed the committee on the commission’s role as regulator of investor-owned utilities, its separation from the Department of Energy in 2021, adjudicative and non-adjudicative procedures, settlement review, and the commission’s limited enforcement and investigatory functions.
Dan Goldner, chair of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, told legislators the PUC’s principal mission is to regulate monopolies in the public interest — reviewing utility rates and protecting consumers from excessive charges. "Monopolies don't have competition. They can exploit their market power by charging excessively high prices," Goldner said as he described the PUC’s responsibility to keep rates just and reasonable.
Goldner recapped changes introduced by the 2021 legislative reorganization that moved the executive-branch energy policy staff into a…
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