Thank you @goodlander.house.gov for speaking out about Eversource, its ridiculously high rates in New Hampshire, and the PUC's aquiescence. open.substack.com/pub/theloose...

Yesterday was bad news for residential ratepayers thanks to the New Hampshire PUC. My latest blog post explains. theloosefish.substack.com/p/the-plot-t...

So: The NH PUC just issued a two-sentence order dismissing our rehearing motion as "moot." You be the judge. The journey across town in Concord can be a drag but I do know how to find the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

We are not rolling over and playing dead in the wake of the NHPUC's profoundly misguided resolution of last year's Eversource rate case. In fact the PUC's order issued on 12/31/26 raises a raft of new issues that must be fixed. www.oca.nh.gov/news-and-media/not-done-deal-yet

No comment. Absolutely no comment whatsoever. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

Call me Ishmael.

My column is back and here, in my blog, I explain how and why and what. theloosefish.substack.com/p/metamorpho...

Remember Northern Pass? open.substack.com/pub/theloose...

Yes the New Hampshire Constitution applies to the Public Utilities Commission and to Eversource. theloosefish.substack.com/p/read-my-lips

Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Is this a fabulous essay, from my old friend Brian Forist, or what? www.clearwater.org/generations-...

Point-counterpoint in re last weekend's Moby-Dick Marathon. open.substack.com/pub/n1303k/p...

Some Fenway Frankness open.substack.com/pub/theloose...

My Moby Musings, 2026 edition. n1303k.substack.com/p/many-are-t...

Some thoughts on the blockbuster order from the NHPUC issued on New Year's Eve . . . via my new blog. open.substack.com/pub/theloose...

A new blog, on the Substack platform, is just part of my reinvented media strategy for 2026. I hope to continue my work as a columnist as well. Here's a link and full explanation. open.substack.com/pub/theloose...

The New Hampshire PUC just ended 2025 with a bang, by issuing a blockbuster order on rehearing in the Eversource electric rate case. 1/10

I finally got to meet my daughter's boss, Maine Governor Janet Mills. It was a pleasure and an honor. Thanks Rose for letting your dad be your date at the Blaine House holiday party. Now I am off to Gov. Ayotte's holiday tea here in Concord.

All I want for Christmas, and Chanukah, is for the Legislature to do something about bloated utility return on equity. If we are really in an affordability crisis, this is where to start. www.oca.nh.gov/news-and-media/if-legislature-wants-do-something-about-affordability-start-bill

Crowdsource Q: Is it ok for me, as Consumer Advocate, to post my columns and other expressions of my opinion to the office web site, oca.nh.gov? As I explore a new home for my Power to the People column, I'm surprised by several suggestions that posting to the office web page would be improper.

I met some fans of my column today. I didn’t have the heart to tell them that InDepthNH.org has decided to cancel the column, effective immediately. Should I try to marshal support for reversing this decision? Or just move on? I can, after all, run my musings on the office we site (OCA.nh.gov).

How have I managed to avoid writing about nuclear power for this long? The wait is over; here's my latest column. www.oca.nh.gov/news-and-med...

This is an important week in the history of the NH Office of the Consumer Advocate as a bill to "clip the wings" of me and my office is likely to get a favorable committee vote on Wednesday. indepthnh.org/2025/10/30/e...

Great video, @hankgreen.bsky.social, but you're dreaming if you really think regulators typically give utilities a return on equity of "around 8 percent." I and my expert witnesses asked for a number that low recently and got ignored by my state's PUC.

I did not realize until today what a cesspool THIS platform had become until I had the nerve to push back gently against the posts I was reading here that argued Janet Mills should not be allowed to run for Senate because she is too old. 1/3

Today on Volts: hey listen up! The most important election of the year is happening in Georgia next month. Two seats on the (currently all-GOP) Public Service Commission are up & rising electricity prices are on everyone's mind. This is a bellwether for next year's governor & midterm elections!

Today the House Committee on Executive Departments and Administration takes up a new version of HB610, originally introduced to abolish my office — the Office of the Consumer Advocate (OCA), which fights for NH’s residential utility customers. Now the bill no longer abolishes the OCA. Instead . . .

Yay! Applegreen is the worst -- see any of their rest areas in NY or Maine -- and Global Partners is an excellent company. I hope the MassDOT pivots to the other bidder without delay. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/b...

It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegone: Two of New England's top utility regulators go down in the same week -- NH on Monday; CT on Friday. I'm dizzy.

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

Someone must have reminded the Governor of how it went down the last time a PUC chair left office. Well into the evening, she signed an order to phase out ratepayer-funded energy efficiency programs. This time was different.

NH PUC Chairman Goldner out of a job as if 5pm per the governor’s office.

Governors who care about bloated rates for electric utilities should take a hard look at the lavish returns being granted to utility shareholders. www.linkedin.com/posts/donald...

The Epilepsy Foundation of New England should be ashamed of itself! open.substack.com/pub/n1303k/p...

Clear-eyed @ezraklein.bsky.social on the stakes: "We are in the authoritarian consolidation stage of this presidency... This is not just how authoritarianism happens. This is authoritarianism happening." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Eversource System Operators Picket for a 1st Union Contract indepthnh.org/2025/09/03/e...

Fellow Granite Staters: Here's a proverbial special invitation and yes there is a free lunch involved. If you care about the future of our electricity grid, attend the 9/11 meeting of the ISO New England Consumer Liaison Group, at noon, at SNHU. Register here: web.cvent.com/event/7e9e5dcf 1/x

Power to the People: Don’t Believe the Eversource Blarney indepthnh.org/2025/08/29/p...

NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL: Trump approval rating: 37% Trump's handling of: Crime: - 12 Russia/Ukraine: -12 Foreign Policy: -16 Economy: -18 Trade: -18 Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19 Sending weapons to Israel: -28 National Guard to DC: -15 Epstein files: -48 Smithsonian: -27 poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Today we are taking the first step toward an appeal of the New Hampshire PUC's order in the Eversource rate case. www.oca.nh.gov/news-and-media/oca-challenges-unjust-and-unreasonable-eversource-rate-case-decision

Are you an attorney with an interest in energy law who yearns for the ultimate white-hat job? If so, let’s talk. Im hiring a staff attorney to litigate alongside me at the NHPUC and elsewhere on behalf of the state’s residential utility customers.

Interview: Donald Kries (@dmokreis.bsky.social) NH Consumer Advocate on Electric Rate Increases, Energy Co-Ops & Public Utilities Commission #NHPolitics youtu.be/tr9zkA9zexw

This was a great discussion with my new friend Carter Hammond from Peterborough. Here's hoping that his newly revived "Locally Sourced" interview series really catches on! youtu.be/tr9zkA9zexw

Very pleased to see this article about unaffordable and inaccessible cystic fibrosis medications in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet today. Too many people around the world are dying of CF unnecessarily. It's a moral outrage. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...