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New Hampshire consumer advocate joins fight against electricity rate hike.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2004

By Karen Spiller, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 10--CONCORD, N.H. -- State Consumer Advocate Anne Ross doesn't want New Hampshire residents to pay $15 to $20 a month more in their electric bills.

Ross, of the New Hampshire Office of Consumer Advocate, joined various attorney generals, business advocates, and energy companies in opposing a plan that would require New England ratepayers to pay an additional $10.4 billion in subsidies to area electric generators over five years starting in 2006.

If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approves the plan, Ross said New Hampshire ratepayers will pay significantly more for electricity, up 0.7 cents per kilowatt hour to 3.06 cents per kilowatt...

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