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The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (the NH PUC) has general jurisdiction over New Hampshire electric, natural gas, water, and sewer utilities, with limited jurisdiction over telecommunications. Its mission is to ensure that the New Hampshire public utilities it regulates provide safe, reliable, and adequate service at just and reasonable rates.

Regulated Residential Electric Rates $/MWh
Company Customer Charge Supply Transmission Distribution Other Total Electric Rate
Eversource $ 15.00 (Fixed) $ 89.29 $ 37.44 $ 62.85 $ 17.64 $ 207.22
Liberty $ 14.74  (Fixed) $ 84.16 $ 36.35 $ 60.39 ($ 5.00) $ 175.90
Unitil $ 16.22  (Fixed) $ 83.06 $ 30.90 $ 46.12 $ 22.72 $ 182.80
The rates are effective 2/1/2025
A typical residential consumer consumes between 0.60 to 0.65 MWh in a month.
New Hampshire ratepayers can choose between default service, third party suppliers as well as community power aggregators when available for power supply.

Third-party Provider Electric Supply Rates by Company & Community Power Aggregation Electric Supply Rates by Municipality or Town

The information above has been provided by the competitive energy suppliers. The NH PUC is not responsible for the accuracy of the information.

Regulated Residential Natural Gas Rates
Company Monthly Customer Charge (flat fee) Distribution Charge RDAF Rate per Therm LDAC Rate per Therm Cost of Gas per Therm Per Therm Rate
Northern Utilities $ 22.20 $ 0.9259 $ 0.0447 $ 0.0676 $ 0.7622 $ 1.8004
Liberty Utilities- Excluding Keene $ 16.76 $ 0.6716 N/A $ 0.1692 $ 0.7610 $ 1.6018
Liberty Utilities - Keene $ 16.76 $ 0.6716 N/A $ 0.1692 $ 1.4354 $ 2.2761
The rates are effective 3/1/2025
Recent Orders
28,114 03/13/25 DT 24-114 Enhanced 911 Petition for E911 Surcharge Increase, Order Approving E911 Surcharge Increase
28,113 03/13/25 DG 24-116 Northern Utilities, Inc. Petition for Approval of Eighth Amendment to Special Contract with Foss Manufacturing Company, LLC, Order Approving Special Contract and Granting Motion for Confidential Treatment
28,112 03/11/25 DE 23-004 Public Service Company of New Hampshire d/b/a Eversource Energy Proposed Purchase of Receivables Program, It is an Order Adopting Report and Recommendation of Hearing Examiner Sarah Fuller, Esq. and Approving Revisions to the “Electric Supplier Services Master Agreement” (ESSMA) and “Eversource’s “Tariff NHPUC No. 10 – Electricity” (Tariff)
28,111 03/10/25 DE 25-003 Town of Cornish Request for Approval of Cornish Community Power Electric Aggregation Plan, Commission Approval of Community Power Aggregation Plan
28,110 03/07/25 DE 22-060 Electric Distribution Utilities Consideration of Changes to the Current Net Metering Tariff Structure, Including Compensation of Customer-Generators, Order Closing Docket to Consider Remaining Issues in New Investigative Docket
28,109 03/05/25 DE 25-002 Town of Bedford Request for Approval of Bedford Community Power Electric Aggregation Plan, Commission Approval of Community Power Aggregation Plan
28,108 03/03/25 DE 24-087 Public Service Company of New Hampshire d/b/a Eversource Energy Petition for Exemption from Town of Bethlehem Zoning Ordinance, Art. II, Part D, under RSA 674:30, III, Order on Motion for Clarification of Scope of Proceeding
28,107 02/26/25 DE 24-066 Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) Corp. d/b/a Liberty Petition to Amend Tariff, Order Denying Salem’s Motion to Dismiss and Requiring Salem to Amend its Proposal
28,106 02/21/25 DE 24-070 Public Service Company of New Hampshire d/b/a Eversource Energy Request for Change in Distribution Rates, Order Denying Motion to Compel
28,105 02/21/25 DE 23-003 Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) Corp. d/b/a Liberty Proposed Purchase of Receivables Program, Order Adopting Report and Recommendation of Hearing Examiner Sarah Fuller, Esq. and Approving Revisions to the “Electric Supplier Services Master Agreement” (ESSMA) and “Electricity Delivery Service Tariff NHPUC No. 21” (Tariff)
28,104 02/19/25 DW 24-108 Pennichuck Water Works, Inc. Petition for Financing Approval to Renew and Extend its Fixed Asset Line of Credit with TD Bank, NA, Order Nisi Approving Financing

Recent Orders of Notice


21 South Fruit Street, Suite 10,
Concord, N.H. 03301-2429

Hours: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

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Walker Building
Phone: (603) 271-2431
Fax: (603) 271-3878
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1-800-735-2964
Consumer Assistance:
1-800-852-3793


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