Granite Staters are finding it difficult to pay their energy bills since utility rates doubled in recent months
These are difficult days for anyone buying electricity in New Hampshire. That’s true for families, schools and nonprofits. It’s also true for businesses like ours, which consume millions of kilowatt-hours of electricity each year to keep our production lines running and our 500+ New Hampshire workers employed.
In fact, the high cost of electricity in New Hampshire nearly prompted us to site our latest expansion in a different state, despite our 76-year history here. Now that energy rates have spiked again to become the highest in the region — 50 percent above the national average — we are doing everything we can to curb our electricity demand through energy efficiency and self-generation.
With this in mind, I took a particular interest in the…