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NH Rev Stat § 378:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:20 - Contracts With Municipalities and Other Utilities.

    378:20 Contracts With Municipalities and Other Utilities. –||Any public utility shall make, renew, or extend any contract for the delivery of electrical energy to a municipality, or political subdivision thereof, or to another utility upon such terms and conditions consistent with the public good as the commission shall order.|||Source. 1929, 179:1. 1933, 74:1. RL 292:21. 1951, 203:46 par. 20, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:21 - Rebates, Etc.

    378:21 Rebates, Etc. –||No public utility shall, directly or indirectly or by any special rate, rebate, drawback or other device or method, make any deviation from the rates, fares, charges or prices for any service rendered by it specified in its schedules on file and in effect at the time such service was rendered.|||Source. 1913, 99:2. PL 242:21. RL 292:22. 1951, 203:46 par. 21, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:22 - For Furnishing Facilities.

    378:22 For Furnishing Facilities. –||No public utility shall demand or receive less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, by such public utility in consideration of the furnishing of any part of the facilities incident thereto.|||Source. 1913, 99:2. PL 242:22. RL 292:23. 1951, 203:46 par. 22, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:23 - Limitation.

    378:23 Limitation. –||Nothing herein shall prohibit any public utility from renting any facilities incident to its service and paying a reasonable rental therefor, or require any public utility to furnish any part of such appliances which are situated in and upon the premises of any consumer, except telephone station equipment upon the premises of subscribers, and, unless otherwise ordered by the commission, meters and appliances for measurement of any service.|||Source. 1913, 99:2. PL 242:23. RL 292:24. 1951, 203:46 par. 23, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:24 - Contracts for Advertising.

    378:24 Contracts for Advertising. –||All advertising contracts of public utilities shall be made at regular, established, commercial advertising rates; and such contracts shall be open to inspection by the commission and the department of energy at all times.|||Source. 1913, 99:2. PL 242:24. RL 292:25. 1951, 203:46 par. 24, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2021, 91:290, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:25 - Repealed by 1985, 402:39, VI.

    378:25 Repealed by 1985, 402:39, VI. –|
NH Rev Stat § 378:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:26 - Filing; Inspection.

    378:26 Filing;  Inspection. –||A copy of such list for the preceding year shall be filed with the commission and the department of energy, in such form and under such regulations as they may prescribe. Such list, together with the books, records and papers of the carrier so far as relevant, shall be open at all times to the inspection of the commission, who shall examine the same whenever they deem it necessary to the due enforcement of this title.|||Source. 1913, 99:2. PL 242:26. RL 292:27. 1951, 203:46 par. 26, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2021, 91:291, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:27 - Temporary Rates.

    378:27 Temporary Rates. –||In any proceeding involving the rates of a public utility brought either upon motion of the commission or the department of energy or upon complaint, the commission may, after reasonable notice and hearing, if it be of the opinion that the public interest so requires, immediately fix, determine, and prescribe for the duration of said proceeding reasonable temporary rates; provided, however, that such temporary rates shall be sufficient to yield not less than a reasonable return on the cost of the property of the utility used and useful in the public service less accrued depreciation, as shown by the reports of the utility filed with the commission and the department of energy, unless there appears to be reasonable ground for questioning the figures in such reports.|||Source. 1941, 148:1. RL 292:28. 1951, 203:46 par. 27, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2021, 91:291, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:28 - Permanent Rates.

    378:28 Permanent Rates. –||So far as possible, the provisions of RSA 378:27 shall be applied by the commission in fixing and determining permanent rates, as well as temporary rates. The commission shall not include in permanent rates any return on any plant, equipment, or capital improvement which has not first been found by the commission to be prudent, used, and useful. Nothing contained in this section shall preclude the commission from receiving and considering any evidence which may be pertinent and material to the determination of a just and reasonable rate base and a just and reasonable rate of return thereon.|||Source. 1951, 203:46 par. 28. RSA 378:28. 1993, 223:1; 330:4. 1994, 193:5, eff. July 23, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:29 - Adjustment.

    378:29 Adjustment. –||Temporary rates so fixed, determined, and prescribed under this subdivision shall be effective until the final determination of the rate proceeding, unless terminated sooner by the commission. In every proceeding in which temporary rates are fixed, determined, and prescribed under this subdivision, the commission shall consider the effect of such rates in fixing, determining, and prescribing rates to be thereafter demanded or received by such public utility on final determination of the rate proceeding. If, upon final disposition of the issues involved in such proceeding, the rates as finally determined are in excess of the rates prescribed in such temporary order, then such public utility shall be permitted to amortize and recover, by means of a temporary increase over and above the rates finally determined, such sum as shall represent the difference between the gross income obtained from the rates prescribed in such temporary order and the ross income which would have been obtained under the rates finally determined if applied during the period such temporary order was in effect.|||Source. 1941, 148:2. RL 292:29. 1951, 203:46 par. 29, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:30 - Bond.

    378:30 Bond. –||If temporary rates are prescribed under RSA 378:27 which are higher than those previously in effect, the commission may require the public utility to file a bond in such form and with such sureties, if any, as the commission may determine, to secure the repayment to the customers of the public utility of the difference between the amounts collected under such temporary rates and the rates which the commission finds should have been in effect during the continuance of such temporary rates.|||Source. 1951, 203:46 par. 30, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:30-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:30-a - Public Utility Rate Base; Exclusions.

    378:30-a Public Utility Rate Base;  Exclusions. –||Public utility rates or charges shall not in any manner be based on the cost of construction work in progress. At no time shall any rates or charges be based upon any costs associated with construction work if said construction work is not completed. All costs of construction work in progress, including, but not limited to, any costs associated with constructing, owning, maintaining or financing construction work in progress, shall not be included in a utility's rate base nor be allowed as an expense for rate making purposes until, and not before, said construction project is actually providing service to consumers.|||Source. 1979, 101:1, eff. May 7, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:30-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:30-b - Conservation Investments; Included in Rates.

    378:30-b Conservation Investments;  Included in Rates. –||The commission may include the cost or value of capital improvements or programs in the rates of a utility when the capital improvement or program provides for the conservation of the energy or water provided by the utility, regardless of whether the utility's capital improvement or program is implemented in or on the utility's premises or at the location of the user of the energy or of the water.|||Source. 1990, 130:2, eff. June 18, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:30-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:30-c - Exclusion of State Grant Funds From Rate Base.

    378:30-c Exclusion of State Grant Funds From Rate Base. –||The commission shall exclude any grants provided by the department of environmental services under RSA 486-A from the rates of water utilities. Utilities shall comply with the notice provisions of RSA 486-A:10 concerning such grants.|||Source. 1993, 341:4, eff. July 1, 1993.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:30-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:30-d - Regional Technical Planning and New Source Development; Included in Rates.

    378:30-d Regional Technical Planning and New Source Development;  Included in Rates. –||Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 378:30-a, the commission may include the cost or value of capital improvements or programs in the rates of a utility when the capital improvement or program is directly related to technical planning of regional water supply development or is directly related to development of new water supply sources.|||Source. 2002, 141:6, eff. May 13, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:30-e (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:30-e - Exclusion of Lobbying and Political Activity Costs From Rates.

    378:30-e Exclusion of Lobbying and Political Activity Costs From Rates. –||The commission shall exclude the cost of lobbying and political activity from the rates of public utilities. For purposes of this section, "lobbying" is any activity requiring registration pursuant to RSA 15:1 and "political activity" is any activity conducted in support of a candidate committee, a political committee, or an inaugural committee, or in support of or opposition to a candidate for public office, regardless of whether such lobbying or political activity is undertaken directly or indirectly on behalf of a public utility.|||Source. 2019, 244:1, eff. Sept. 10, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:31 - Appeals.

    378:31 Appeals. –||Procedure to be followed in connection with appeals shall be in accordance with RSA 541.|||Source. 1941, 148:3. RL 292:30. 1951, 203:46 par. 31, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:32 - Commission May Establish Joint Service.

    378:32 Commission May Establish Joint Service. –||I. The public utilities commission may establish joint services between localities which cannot be reached either by the lines of a single utility or by the use of other lines with suitable connections.||II. The public utilities commission, after a hearing upon complaint or on its own initiative, may establish joint services for 2 or more telephone utilities when the lines or wires form a continuous line of communication or could form a continuous line by:||(a) Construction and maintenance of suitable connections;||(b) Joint use of equipment; or||(c) Transfer of messages at common points.||III. The public utilities commission may determine the rates, fares and charges to be used by utilities engaged in joint services and may adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to rates, fares, charges and classifications.|||Source. 1985, 402:21.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:33 - Division of Rates.

    378:33 Division of Rates. –||The commission may adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the division of joint rates, fares, charges, and classifications between telephone utilities engaging in joint services whenever the divisions shall not be made by agreement. Any division agreed upon shall be subject to revision by the commission if found to be inconsistent with the public interest.|||Source. 1985, 402:21.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:34 - Termination.

    378:34 Termination. –||Whenever joint service has been established by 2 or more public utilities, the commission shall have authority to prevent any unjust or unreasonable termination of the same or to order the reestablishment of such service if so terminated.|||Source. 1985, 402:21.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:35 - Fixing Rates.

    378:35 Fixing Rates. –||Whenever, after hearing and investigation, the commission shall find any joint rate, fare, charge or price demanded and collected for any existing joint service participated in by 2 or more public utilities to be unjust, unreasonable or discriminatory, it shall fix the same upon a just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory basis.|||Source. 1985, 402:21.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:36 - Apportionment.

    378:36 Apportionment. –||If the public utilities affected thereby shall fail to agree upon the division or apportionment thereof, the commission may prescribe the division of such joint rates, fares, charges and classifications between such public utilities and may revise any division agreed upon which shall be found inconsistent with the public interest. In making such apportionment, the commission shall consider the financial impact of the apportionment on each utility affected by such apportionment.|||Source. 1985, 402:21. 1990, 109:2, eff. June 12, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:37 - New Hampshire Energy Policy.

    378:37 New Hampshire Energy Policy. –||The general court declares that it shall be the energy policy of this state to meet the energy needs of the citizens and businesses of the state at the lowest reasonable cost while providing for the reliability and diversity of energy sources; to maximize the use of cost effective energy efficiency and other demand side resources; and to protect the safety and health of the citizens, the physical environment of the state, and the future supplies of resources, with consideration of the financial stability of the state's utilities.|||Source. 1990, 226:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991. 2014, 129:1, eff. Aug. 15, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:38 - Submission of Plans to the Commission.

    378:38 Submission of Plans to the Commission. –||Pursuant to the policy established under RSA 378:37, each electric and natural gas utility, under RSA 362:2, shall file a least cost integrated resource plan with the commission within 2 years of the commission's final order regarding the utility's prior plan, and in all cases within 5 years of the filing date of the prior plan. Each such plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following, as applicable:||I. A forecast of future demand for the utility's service area.||II. An assessment of demand-side energy management programs, including conservation, efficiency, and load management programs.||III. An assessment of supply options including owned capacity, market procurements, renewable energy, and distributed energy resources.||IV. An assessment of distribution and transmission requirements, including an assessment of the benefits and costs of "smart grid" technologies, and the institution or extension of electric utility programs designed to ensure a more reliable and resilient grid to prevent or minimize power outages, including but not limited to, infrastructure automation and technologies.||V. An assessment of plan integration and impact on state compliance with the Clean Air Act of 1990, as amended, and other environmental laws that may impact a utility's assets or customers.||VI. An assessment of the plan's long- and short-term environmental, economic, and energy price and supply impact on the state.||VII. An assessment of plan integration and consistency with the state energy strategy under RSA 12-P.|||Source. 1990, 226:1. 1994, 362:4, eff. June 8, 1994. 2014, 129:1, eff. Aug. 15, 2014. 2015, 89:3, eff. Aug. 4, 2015. 2021, 91:202, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:38-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:38-a - Waiver by Commission.

    378:38-a Waiver by Commission. –||The commission, by order, may waive for good cause any requirement under RSA 378:38, upon written request by a utility.|||Source. 1997, 298:14, eff. June 20, 1997. 2014, 129:1, eff. Aug. 15, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:39 - Commission Evaluation of Plans.

    378:39 Commission Evaluation of Plans. –||The commission shall review integrated least-cost resource plans in order to evaluate the consistency of each utility's plan with this subdivision, in an adjudicative proceeding. In deciding whether or not to approve the utility's plan, the commission shall consider potential environmental, economic, and health-related impacts of each proposed option. The commission is encouraged to consult with appropriate state and federal agencies, alternative and renewable fuel industries, and other organizations in evaluating such impacts. The commission's approval of a utility's plan shall not be deemed a pre-approval of any actions taken or proposed by the utility in implementing the plan. Where the commission determines the options have equivalent financial costs, equivalent reliability, and equivalent environmental, economic, and health-related impacts, the following order of energy policy priorities shall guide the commission's evaluation:||I. Energy efficiency and other demand-side management resources;||II. Renewable energy sources;||III. All other energy sources.|||Source. 1990, 226:1. 1994, 362:5, eff. June 8, 1994. 2014, 129:1, eff. Aug. 15, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:40 - Plans Required.

    378:40 Plans Required. –||No rate change shall be approved or ordered with respect to any utility that does not have on file with the commission a plan that has been filed and approved in accordance with the provisions of RSA 378:38 and RSA 378:39. However, nothing contained in this subdivision shall prevent the commission from approving a change, otherwise permitted by statute or agreement, where the utility has made the required plan filing in compliance with RSA 378:38 and the process of review is proceeding in the ordinary course but has not been completed.|||Source. 1994, 362:6, eff. June 8, 1994. 2014, 129:1, eff. Aug. 15, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:41 - Repealed by 2014, 129:3, I, eff. Aug. 15, 2014.

    378:41 Repealed by 2014, 129:3, I, eff. Aug. 15, 2014. –|
NH Rev Stat § 378:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:42 - Repealed by 2014, 129:3, II, eff. Aug. 15, 2014.

    378:42 Repealed by 2014, 129:3, II, eff. Aug. 15, 2014. –|
NH Rev Stat § 378:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:43 - Repealed by 2010, 206:3, eff. Dec. 19, 2010.

    378:43 Repealed by 2010, 206:3, eff. Dec. 19, 2010. –|
NH Rev Stat § 378:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:44 - Definitions.

    378:44 Definitions. –||In this subdivision:||I. "Billing aggregator" means a person, other than a service provider, who forwards a charge for a product or service offered by a service provider to the utility company for billing to the customer.||II. "Commission" means the public utilities commission.||III. "Cramming" means a submission or inclusion of unauthorized, misleading, or deceptive charges for products or services on a customer's utility bill. Cramming shall not include tariffed charges or charges required or otherwise allowed by law.||IV. "Customer" means the party identified in the account records of the utility company, a person contractually or otherwise lawfully authorized to represent such party, or a person identified in such records as authorized to change the services subscribed to or to charge services to the account.||V. "Electric distribution company" means the company franchised by the commission to provide retail electric delivery service, provided, however, that municipal electric utilities and rural electric cooperatives for which certificates of deregulation are on file with the commission pursuant to RSA 301:57 shall not be considered electric distribution companies.||VI. "Gas distribution company" means the company franchised by the commission to provide retail gas delivery service.||VII. "Local exchange carrier" means the company that provides local telephone exchange service.||VIII. "Service provider" means a person that offers a product or service to a customer and directly or indirectly sends the billable charges or credits to the utility company for billing to the customer. A customer's energy supplier shall not be deemed to be a service provider.||IX. "Utility company" means the local exchange carrier, electric distribution company, or gas distribution company who renders the utility bill to the customer for telephone, electric, or gas services, respectively.|||Source. 1999, 168:1. 2002, 12:2, eff. Mar. 25, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:45 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:45 - Registration Required.

    378:45 Registration Required. –||All billing aggregators and service providers which directly submit charges to a utility company for inclusion on the utility bill shall be registered with the commission. The commission may revoke a registration for cause. The registration of a billing aggregator may be revoked based upon the fraudulent behavior or conduct of a service provider for whom the billing aggregator is billing.|||Source. 1999, 168:1. 2002, 12:2, eff. Mar. 25, 2002.|