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Old 07-03-2023, 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by tophcfa View Post
Compared to SECO, Eversource totally sucks from a cost prospective if you are a customer. The cost of their so called green power sources are very expensive and those costs are passed on to their customers. I recently compared our monthly Eversource bill from our Massachusetts home to our SECO bill from our Villages home and the results were shocking. We used about two thirds of the power in Massachusetts and our bill was almost 150% of the SECO bill. I’ll take SECO over Eversource seven days a week and twice on Sundays. To be fair to Eversource, they are mandated to buy overpriced power from sources designated as green, and their costs of trimming trees overhanging power lines in rural New England towns is a factor as well. SECO also doesn’t have to deal with frequent winter power outages from heavy snow, ice, and freezing rain dropping trees and limbs on their above ground power lines. The bottom line with residential roof top solar in New England is that it is uneconomical without government subsidies and forced net metering. I’m all for green power, as long as its economics hold up without taxpayer or rate payer subsidies.
Truestory: NY regulators bankrupted Niagra Mohawk in the late 1990's, which had the lowest cost of generation in the northeast, due to hydro electric plants. The regulators forced them to "purchase alternative sources" at higher prices but didn't allow them to pass along the increased prices to the customers.


All energy has costs, some more than others. . .

Pre retirement work story:
back in the 1990's the high paid consultants' energy forecasts (I worked with some of them) were for the world to start to run out of oil in the 2020's, this decade. Perhaps that forecast has hatched the mind worms of the many politicians, scientists, etc resulting in the expensive transition to "green" energy before we all go the way of the dinosaurs. .

former finance guy