State Energy Office Encourages PUC To Consider Plan For Dynamic Pricing

The New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning has urged the PUC to consider time-of-use pricing as part of the PUC's newly opened grid modernization proceeding.

Specifically, the state energy office said that the PUC should consider, "A plan to implement time-of-use pricing, using the successful pilots already conducted in New Hampshire, and identifying the steps needed to maximize energy-usage information available to commercial, residential, and public customers to help them manage their use, reduce costs and provide important grid benefits such as peak reductions."

OEP also suggested that the PUC investigation include issues related to section III of HB 614, which requires the PUC to, "establish an 'electricity peak time reduction goal'" by July 1, 2016.

"Because peak electricity demand can drive investment in costly infrastructure and is an important part of long-term system planning, it would be efficient for the PUC to use the stakeholder process in this investigation to inform its peak time reduction goals as well," the energy office said