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NH Rev Stat § 378:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:3-a - Fuel Adjustment Charge.

    378:3-a Fuel Adjustment Charge. –||I. In this section "fuel adjustment charge" means a charge designed to cover increases and decreases in the cost of purchased electric power for a public utility purchasing electric power and increases and decreases in the delivered cost of fuel to the generating plant site for a public utility generating its own electric power.||II. No public utility which generates its own electric power may levy a fuel adjustment charge unless it secures approval from the commission subsequent to a public hearing held at least 7 days prior to the first day of each month in which the charge is to be levied.||III. Any public utility which does not generate its own electric power that purchases electric power already subject to a fuel adjustment charge approved by the regulatory agency having jurisdiction over said charge shall not be required to secure approval from the commission by public hearing prior to passing on the fuel adjustment charge in the cost of purchased electric power to its customers.|||Source. 1976, 58:1. 1979, 18:1, eff. March 27, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:4 - Retroactive Reduction.

    378:4 Retroactive Reduction. –||The commission may approve a general retroactive reduction in rates by any public utility, covering service for which payment has not been made, when no discrimination will be caused thereby.|||Source. 1913, 145:7. PL 242:4. RL 292:4. 1951, 203:46 par. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:5 - Higher Rates.

    378:5 Higher Rates. –||Whenever any schedule shall be filed with the commission stating new and higher rates, fares, charges or prices, which the public utility filing the same proposes to put into force, the commission may investigate the reasonableness of such proposed rates, fares, charges or prices.|||Source. 1911, 164:7. PL 242:5. RL 292:5. 1951, 203:46 par. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:7 - Fixing of Rates by Commission.

    378:7 Fixing of Rates by Commission. –||Whenever the commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing had upon its own motion or on motion of the department of energy or upon complaint, that the rates, fares or charges demanded or collected, or proposed to be demanded or collected, by any public utility for service rendered or to be rendered are unjust or unreasonable, or that the regulations or practices of such public utility affecting such rates are unjust or unreasonable, or in any wise in violation of any provision of law, or that the maximum rates, fares or charges chargeable by any such public utility are insufficient, the commission shall determine the just and reasonable or lawful rates, fares and charges to be thereafter observed and in force as the maximum to be charged for the service to be performed, and shall fix the same by order to be served upon all public utilities by which such rates, fares and charges are thereafter to be observed. The commission shall be under no obligation to investigate or hear any rate matter which it has investigated within a period of 2 years, but may do so within said period at its discretion.|||Source. 1913, 145:10. PL 242:7. RL 292:7. 1951, 203:46 par. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2021, 91:289, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:7-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:7-a - Energy Policy Act Standards.

    378:7-a Energy Policy Act Standards. –|| Consistent with their statutory authority, the commission and the department of energy may establish requirements for net metering, fuel diversity, fossil fuel generation efficiency, advanced metering, time-based rates, and interconnection with on-site generation facilities of customers in a manner not inconsistent with section 111 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. Chapter 46) as amended by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.|||Source. 1978, 29:1. 2007, 25:9, eff. May 11, 2007. 2021, 91:289, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:7-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:7-b - Repealed by 2007, 25:12, II, eff. May 11, 2007.

    378:7-b Repealed by 2007, 25:12, II, eff. May 11, 2007. –|
NH Rev Stat § 378:7-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:7-c - Electric Customer Defined.

    378:7-c Electric Customer Defined. –||The term "electric customer" means any customer to which electric energy is sold for purposes other than for resale.|||Source. 1978, 29:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:8 - Burden of Proof.

    378:8 Burden of Proof. –||When any public utility shall seek the benefit of any order of the commission allowing it to charge and collect rates higher than charged at the time said order is asked for, the burden of proving the necessity of the increase shall be upon such applicant.|||Source. 1913, 145:10. PL 242:8. RL 292:10. 1951, 203:46 par. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:9 - Emergency.

    378:9 Emergency. –||Whenever the commission shall be of the opinion that an emergency exists, it may authorize any public utility temporarily to alter, amend or suspend any existing rate, fare, charge, price, classification or rule or regulation relating thereto.|||Source. 1913, 145:12. PL 242:10. RL 292:10. 1951, 203:46 par. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:10 - Preferences.

    378:10 Preferences. –||No public utility shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person or corporation, or to any locality, or to any particular description of service in any respect whatever or subject any particular person or corporation or locality, or any particular description of service, to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatever.|||Source. 1911, 164:7. PL 242:11. RL 292:11. 1951, 203:46 par. 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:11 - Exceptions.

    378:11 Exceptions. –||The provisions of RSA 378:10 shall not require absolute uniformity in the charges made and demanded by public utilities when the circumstances render any lack of uniformity reasonable, nor prevent telephone, telegraph and cable companies from entering into contracts, subject to the approval of the commission, with common carriers for the exchange of services, nor affect existing contracts relating thereto, nor prohibit a public utility from establishing differential rates or a sliding scale for the automatic adjustment of such charges if said rates or sliding scale, subject to the approval of the commission, shall be reasonable and just, nor prevent a railroad from providing tickets at reduced rates for commutation travel, excursion trips and other classes of passenger traffic subject to the approval of the commission.|||Source. 1911, 164:7. PL 242:12. RL 292:12. 1951, 203:46 par. 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:11-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:11-a - Economic Development and Retention Rates.

    378:11-a Economic Development and Retention Rates. –||I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commission shall establish procedures for the review and approval of tariffs for electric service rates that foster economic development and of tariffs for retention of existing load within the state. For the purposes of this section the term "economic development rates" means rates, the purpose of which is to attract new industrial companies to the state and to encourage expansion of existing industrial load that would otherwise not occur in the state. For the purposes of this section "retention rates" means rates, the purpose of which is to retain existing industrial load that would otherwise leave the utility. Such procedures shall provide that all electric public utilities serving retail customers may file with the commission generally available rate schedules for the provision of economic development rates and/or retention rates to industrial customers. Such rates shall take into consideration eligibility criteria, the effect on the utility's fixed and variable costs, the amount of new demand and energy for electric service involved, the effect on employment within the state, material adverse competitive impact on existing in-state firms, and end-user participation in conservation programs and other state established economic development enhancement programs.||II. To ensure fairness in the application of the retention rate to industrial load that is not planning to leave the utility, if the commission finds that it is in the public good, the retention rate may also be offered to a direct competitor of a company that has qualified for such rate.||III. (a) Except as provided in paragraph II, retention rates shall be available to a customer only if the utility represents that the load would otherwise have left the utility.||(b) Economic development rates shall be available to all new industrial companies to the state and for all expansion of existing load without such representation by the utility, provided that eligibility criteria are met.||IV. (a) In any rate proceeding subsequent to approval of economic development rates or retention rates, the commission shall not impute to the utility's test year revenues or revenue requirement the difference between the regular tariffed rate and the economic development rate or retention rate provided that those customers qualify for the rate.||(b) The incremental benefit of the economic development rate, which is the excess of the incremental revenues over the incremental cost attributable to the economic development rate, shall be allocated by the commission between the utility and its other ratepayers in a manner consistent with the public interest, as determined by the commission.||V. The rates established in this section shall not be available after December 31, 2002.|||Source. 1995, 272:9. 1996, 186:2, eff. June 3, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:12, 378:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:12, 378:13 - Repealed by 1985, 402:39, VI.

    378:12, 378:13 Repealed by 1985, 402:39, VI. –|
NH Rev Stat § 378:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:14 - Free Service, Etc.

    378:14 Free Service, Etc. –||No public utility shall grant any free service, nor charge or receive a greater or lesser or different compensation for any service rendered to any person, firm or corporation than the compensation fixed for such service by the schedules on file with the commission and in effect at the time such service is rendered.|||Source. 1913, 99:2. PL 242:15. RL 292:15. 1951, 203:46 par. 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:14-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:14-a - Emergency Calls.

    378:14-a Emergency Calls. –||Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 378:14, telephone companies authorized by the commission to do business in any town shall, at the customer's request, adjust the charges for tolls to such customer so that no toll charges shall be imposed for any call from any point within the geographical boundaries of said town placed through such company to the emergency number of an agency of local government located within such town, provided, however, that such request for adjustment is made at the company's business office prior to paying such charges.|||Source. 1977, 500:1, eff. Sept. 12, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:15 - Service to Officers, Etc.

    378:15 Service to Officers, Etc. –||I. Nothing herein shall prevent any public utility from granting free or reduced rate service to its officers and employees, nor any telephone or telegraph utility from granting franks for free service to the officials of other utilities engaged in the operation of telephone or telegraph properties, nor prevent any public utility from granting free or reduced rate service to charitable organizations or to municipalities.||II. In the case of electric utilities, if such a utility offers free or reduced rate service to its officers and employees, as provided in paragraph I of this section, then the subsidy created by such service shall be borne by all classes of customers in direct proportion to each class's consumption of kilowatt hours.|||Source. 1913, 99:2. PL 242:16. RL 292:16. 1951, 203:46 par. 15. RSA 378:15. 1977, 163:1, eff. Aug. 6, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:16 - Statements of Service at Less Than Schedule Rates.

    378:16 Statements of Service at Less Than Schedule Rates. –||Statements shall be filed with the commission, in such form as the commission shall require, showing all service of any kind granted at less than the regular schedule rates.|||Source. 1913, 99:2. PL 242:17. RL 292:17. 1951, 203:46 par. 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:17 - Discontinuance, Etc., of Free or Reduced Rate Service.

    378:17 Discontinuance, Etc., of Free or Reduced Rate Service. –||In any case where the commission shall investigate the rates, charges or prices of any public utility in any town or city, if it shall be of the opinion that the furnishing of free or reduced rate service under the authority hereof operates unreasonably to increase the rates, charges and prices to the public, it may, to such extent as in its opinion justice may require, order a discontinuance of such free service, or an increase in the rates, charges or prices collected for such service, or any part thereof.|||Source. 1913, 99:2. PL 242:18. RL 292:18. 1951, 203:46 par. 17, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:17-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:17-a - Local Telephone Calling Areas and Intrastate Access Charges.

    378:17-a Local Telephone Calling Areas and Intrastate Access Charges. –||I. In this section, "local calling area" means the area which may be called from a telephone calling exchange without paying toll charges or access charges.||II. If the commission uses a community of interest standard to limit requests to add additional exchanges to a local calling area, the commission should not reject requests solely because few calls are currently being made between the exchanges that would become local calls if the request were granted. If few calls are currently being made, the commission should consider the likelihood of significant increases in the number of calls between the exchanges if the request is granted and these calls become local calls, especially where public school district boundaries indicate that this is likely to occur.||III. (a) The commission should, as soon as possible after each significant decrease of interstate access charges by the federal government, consider corresponding reductions in intrastate access charges, taking into account both the disadvantages to customers of intrastate access charges that exceed interstate access charges and the disadvantages to customers of increases in charges for basic services.||(b) The commission should consider reducing intrastate access charges and increasing basic monthly service charges for local exchange carrier telephone utilities that have both a higher intrastate access charge than the state median intrastate access charge and a lower basic monthly service charge than the state median basic monthly service charge for exchanges with similar numbers of telephones within the local calling area.|||Source. 2000, 33:2, eff. June 2, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:17-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:17-b - Competitive Telephone Services Information.

    378:17-b Competitive Telephone Services Information. –||I. The commission is authorized to require telephone utilities that are also providers of competitive telephone services within New Hampshire or outside of New Hampshire to provide information to the commission concerning potential separation or divestiture. The information shall include the costs and other adverse consequences of requiring the separation of these businesses into 2 separate subsidiaries or the divestiture of one or the other into a completely separate corporate entity. This information may be required of any telephone utility which is engaged in any competitive business and which is also engaged either in any non-competitive business, or in any competitive business in which it has a market share exceeding 80 percent.||II. The commission is authorized to require telephone utilities that are required to make services available to competitive resellers to provide information to the commission concerning potential separation or divestiture. The information shall include the costs and other adverse consequences of requiring the separation or divestiture of the competitive portion of their business which competes with the competitive resellers. It should be assumed that the separated or divested portion would then be removed from price regulation.||III. The commission may require information pursuant to this section from all telephone utilities, or from telephone utilities larger than a specified size with or without a representative sample of telephone utilities smaller than that size, at the commission's discretion.||IV. The commission shall not mandate separation or divestiture without legislative approval unless so required by federal law.|||Source. 2000, 33:2, eff. June 2, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:18 - Special Contracts for Service.

    378:18 Special Contracts for Service. –||Nothing herein shall prevent a public utility from making a contract for service at rates other than those fixed by its schedules of general application, if special circumstances exist which render such departure from the general schedules just and consistent with the public interest and, except as provided in RSA 378:18-b, the commission shall by order allow such contract to take effect.|||Source. 1913, 99:2. PL 242:19. RL 292:19. 1951, 203:46 par. 18. RSA 378:18. 1996, 186:3, eff. June 3, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:18-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:18-a - Special Contracts; Electric Utilities.

    378:18-a Special Contracts;  Electric Utilities. –||I. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, for the purposes of ratemaking, an electric utility that has adopted special contracts prior to the effective date of this section shall not be allowed to recover from other ratepayers the difference between the regular tariffed rate and the special contract rate, unless and only to the extent that the commission determines that it is in the public interest and equitable to other ratepayers.||II. After the effective date of this section, new special contracts designed to retain load shall be available to an electric utility customer only if the utility represents that the load would otherwise have left the utility, the contract is approved pursuant to RSA 378:18, and the commission determines that no tariffed rate is sufficient to retain the load.||III. After the effective date of this section, new special contracts designed to attract load shall be available to an electric utility customer only if the contract is approved pursuant to RSA 378:18 and the commission determines that no tariffed rate is sufficient to attract the load.||IV. In any electric utility rate proceeding subsequent to approval of special contracts, the commission shall not impute to the utility's test year revenues or revenue requirement the difference between the regular tariffed rate and the special contract rate.|||Source. 1996, 186:4, eff. June 3, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:18-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:18-b - Special Contracts; Telephone Utilities.

    378:18-b Special Contracts;  Telephone Utilities. –||I. In this section:||(a) "Toll service" means switched telephone calls to locations outside of the local service area of the caller, as defined in the serving telephone utility's tariffs on file with the commission.||(b) "Incumbent local exchange carrier" means a local exchange carrier authorized to do business in the state prior to the passage of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996.||II. (a) Except as provided in RSA 378:18-b, III, any special contracts for incumbent local exchange carriers providing telephone services shall be filed with the commission and shall become effective 30 days after filing, provided the rates are set not less than:||(1) The incremental cost of the relevant service; or||(2) Where the telephone utility's competitors must purchase access from the telephone utility to offer a competing service, the price of the lowest cost form of access that competitors could purchase to compete for customers with comparable volumes of usage, plus the incremental cost of related overhead.||(b) The commission may, in its discretion and with reasonable explanation, extend the effective date of the special contract by 30 days.||III. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, special contracts for toll service provided by incumbent local exchange carriers need not be filed with the commission for its approval in order for the special contract to take effect. Copies of such special contracts shall be filed with the commission within 7 business days after the special contract's effective date. The commission may investigate a special contract for toll service to determine whether the rates are consistent with the cost considerations of this section. If the special contract for toll service is not consistent with the cost considerations of this section, the parties shall either cancel the special contract or agree to revise the rate.|||Source. 1996, 186:4. 2001, 76:1, eff. Aug. 18, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 378:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 378 - Rates and Charges|Section 378:19 - Filing.

    378:19 Filing. –||Such contracts shall be filed and made public in such manner as the commission shall require, and shall constitute a part of the published schedules of the public utility making the same.|||Source. 1913, 99:2. PL 242:20. RL 292:20. 1951, 203:46 par. 19, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|