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PUC Adopts Order Making Low-Income Discount Available To Customers Of Competitive Retail Suppliers

May 8, 2018

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The New Hampshire PUC has adopted an order requiring that customers served by competitive retail suppliers shall now receive the discount available to low-income customers under the Electric Assistance Program (EAP), adopting recommendations from the EAP Advisory Board

All electric customers pay, through the non-bypassable System Benefits Charge (SBC), for an Electric Assistance Program (EAP) whose purpose is to help low-income residential customers afford electricity

To date, the EAP discount has not been available for the portion of a bill comprising charges owed to a non-utility competitive energy supplier.

Under the adopted change, effective October 1, 2018, the EAP discount shall be applied to the energy portion of the bill for those EAP participants who have chosen a competitive energy supplier that uses utility consolidated billing. The discount will not be available to retail supply customers who are not on utility consolidated billing

With this change, all such EAP participants will receive the discount on the total bill, both delivery and energy.

To avoid the complexity associated with basing discounts on supplier rates, the PUC agreed to calculate the discount for competitive supply customers using the utility’s default energy service rate as a proxy. The discount would still only be applicable to each customer’s first 750 kWh of usage. All usage over 750 kWh would not be discounted

Docket DE 18- 057

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