The New Hampshire Retail Competition Pilot
Program
Presented to the Direct Access Working
Group
San Diego, California
June 7, 1996
Michael Kieschnick
President
Working Assets OVERVIEW
OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE RETAIL COMPETITION PILOT
Size
- 3 percent of retail load
- About 50 MW
Duration
Who's Participating?
- 17,000 Customers - participation determined by
lottery
- Residential
- Individuals
- Geographic Areas of Concentration (GAC)
- Customers in a GAC can still purchase individually
- Small Commercial
- Industrial
- Incumbent Utilities
- Continue to provide transmission and distribution
services
- Power Suppliers
- Close to 30
- Some are utility marketing affiliates
- Others are new market players like Working Assets
NEW HAMPSHIRE PILOT PROCEDURAL HISTORY
- In June 1995, Legislature directed PUC to implement
a retail competition pilot
- In October 1995, PUC issued a report and preliminary
guidelines
- Parties worked collaboratively, and with PUC
staff, through winter to develop pilot protocols
- On 2/28/96 PUC issued final order.
Can be accessed at PUC Web site: http://www.state.nh.us/puc/puc.html
- Utilities filed tariffs with NH PUC, FERC
- Customers had until April 24 to volunteer for
lottery
- Lottery results announced May 1
- Customers chose power providers in May
- Bill ordering full retail competition by 1/1/98
signed last week
NEW HAMPSHIRE PILOT OPERATIONAL DETAILS
- Customers
- Use existing meters
- Choose power supplier
- Can switch providers, assuming they are not locked
in to a contract, once every 30 days
- Don't need any special equipment or aggregation
to participate
- Incumbent Utilities
- Continue to provide transmission, distribution,
meter reading
- Can sell billing services to suppliers
- Provide load estimates to NEPOOL
- Suppliers
- Must be approved by New Hampshire PUC
- Must join New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) or
contract with a NEPOOL member
- Market and sell energy to customers
- Can bill directly, or contract with distribution
utility for billing services
- Regulators
- FERC is in process of approving transmission
tariffs
- NH PUC will monitor pilot
- Quarterly reports from utilities, suppliers
- Consumer advisories and complaint resolution
- NH PUC moving ahead with implementation of full
retail competition
WHAT WORKING ASSETS IS OFFERING IN NEW
HAMPSHIRE
- Green portfolio
- No nuclear
- No coal
- No Hydro-Quebec
- No contract terms
- Donations program
- One percent of proceeds from NH Pilot will be
donated to environmental groups in New England
- If you want to contact Working Assets....
Laura Scher
CEO
701 Montgomery Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94111
ph.: 415/788-0777
fax: 415/788-7572
e-mail: lscher@wald.com