Table Descriptions

Regulated Residential Electric Rates Table

New Hampshire State Charges ($/MWh) Eversource Liberty Unitil
Renewable Portfolio Standard $ 9.04 $ 8.80 $ 8.07
Revenue Decoupling/Lost Based Revenue $ 2.07 $ 2.81 $ 2.12
System Benefits Charge $ 9.34 $ 7.56 $ 7.56
Stranded Costs $ 7.44 $ -0.37 $ -0.13
Total State Policy Levies $ 27.89 $  18.80 $ 17.88

New Hampshire State Charges:

  • Renewable Portfolio Standard: Purchases of energy certificates associated with solar, wind, hydro, and biomass energy generation
  • Revenue Decoupling charges for Liberty and Unitil and Lost Base Revenue charges for Eversource which pay the utilities for any energy efficiency savings achieved
  • System Benefits Charges: Costs for the Energy Efficiency and Electric Assistance Programs
  • Stranded costs: Costs charged to ratepayers when electric utilities will not recover policy-driven costs, such as infrastructure deemed redundant upon the divestiture of vertically integrated monopolies, Net Metering, and Regional Green House Gas (RGGI) costs.