HERNDON: Today’s Savings, Tomorrow’s Bill: The Real Stakes of HB 1733

HERNDON: Today’s Savings, Tomorrow’s Bill: The Real Stakes of HB 1733

If you save money today but someone else pays tomorrow, is it really a savings? Before the New Hampshire Senate, HB 1733 poses a defining question about the future of the state’s electric market. The bill seeks to realign default service with the original intent of restructuring by limiting practices that shift risk to customers, distort pricing, and undermine competition. In 1996, New Hampshire enacted the nation’s first electric restructuring …