New Hampshire Approves New Default Service Rates

The New Hampshire PUC approved new default electric service rates at Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) for the period beginning February 1, 2019

For the residential and small commercial customer group, the new all-in default service rate is 8.299 cents per kWh for the six-month period beginning February 1, 2019. In aggregate, this is identical to the current default service rate, though the underlying components have changed (base energy, RPS adder, reconciliation, etc.).

For the Large Customer Group, the new all-in default service rates are:

Large Customer Group, ¢/kWh
February 2019   12.864 
March 2019      10.066 
April 2019       7.542 
May 2019         6.745 
June 2019        5.429 
July 2019        5.966 

Calpine Energy Services, L.P. was the winning bidder to provide power supply to the Large Customer Group for the three-month period of February 1 through April 30, 2019; and to the Small Customer Group for the six-month period of February 1 through July 31, 2019.

DTE Energy Trading, Inc. was the winning bidder to provide energy service to the Large Customer Group for the three-month period of May 1 through July 31, 2019