Consumer Advocate Warns: Your Electric Bill Could Balloon by 50 Percent

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Consumer Advocate Warns: Your Electric Bill Could Balloon by 50 Percent
Posted to Politics June 15, 2022 by Damien Fisher
 
Already paying some of the highest energy costs in the country, New Hampshire ratepayers will soon be paying a lot more.

According to a filing with the Public Utilities Commission, Liberty Utilities is seeking approval for an increase in the default residential energy rate from 8.393 cents per kilowatt-hours to 22.223 cents per kilowatt-hours.
 
Donald Kreis, with New Hampshire’s Office of Consumer Advocate, said the net effect of the charge will be that Granite Staters who use Liberty can expect to pay nearly 50 percent more for electricity when the new rate goes into effect in August.

https://nhjournal.com/consumer-advocate-warns-your-electric-bill-could-balloon-by-50-percent/

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Don't think for one second NH will be the only state.

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What gives them the idea that demand for electricity will go up at the same time that the fuels needed to generate electricity become more scarce?