HB1432

While condo associations pay for water and septic at Residential Rates, associations are charged "commercial rates" for electricity. We are not a commercial business; we are a residential community. We should be paying residential use rates for electricity. This disparity makes no rational sense. Passing of this bill will make electric companies follow the same rules as water and septic services. Thank you for listening.

Condominium owners are homeowners...not commercial vendors!

As a retired resident of a condominium association, I support his bill as it will lower the electric rate that I would pay for septic and well electricity. It makes no sense that my condominium unit gets charged at one rate and then the septic and well which the association takes care of is charged at another rate for the same unit. Ultimately it is I the unit owner that is paying the electricity bill.

As a residential customer in a nonprofit condominium, I feel billing flat commercial rates is an unfair practice for essential services. I also feel the same concerning street lighting in condominium complexes, for the same reasons. Actual businesses use up much of our utility services while being subsidized by residential customers.

Myself and my neighbors live in a residential HOA in New London N H, we pay residential taxes, why should we be subject to commercial rates?

Condominiums should pay the residential rate as they are residential dwelling units. They are not commercial buildings

My husband and I own a condominium at Bramber Green in Greenland, NH. Bramber Green is an entirely residential community. There are no offices, restaurants or other commercial ventures of any kid on our property - only 73 homes and a little Clubhouse used solely by our residents, all of whom must be age 55+. There is no reason we, the homeowners, should pay higher electricity rates than those paid by other homeowners in New Hampshire.

I support HB 1432 because condominium residents should not be charged commercial electric rates for essential residential infrastructure like septic and well pumps. This bill corrects an unfair billing practice, supports housing affordability, and provides a simple, low-burden process for rural electric cooperatives to apply the appropriate residential rate.

This bill has the potential to lower the electric rates for those of us living in condominiums. It is one way you can help offset the ever-increasing cost of living in NH caused in part by current economic policy.

I have been the person responsible for tracking the solar array performance for our condominium community. Prior to signing a 12 year lease with the installation vendor, we were told that reporting to the PUC would be done by the vendor. In that first year the vendor failed to file on time resulting in our community being compensated at the commercial rate. This was a substantial loss to our community. As a result we have chosen not to depend on the vendor to submit the reporting form (group-net-metering-annual-report-form-909-10.xlsx). Our current challenge is getting a volunteer to spend all of the time necessary to collect the performance data for the 19 accounts of our Group Net Metering solar array. This has become a serious challenge that would be substantially mitigated by passing HB1432 as I understand it. It's not enough to complain about a situation without offering a solution. I recognize the need to report performance but without too much change, this can be a far more reasonable requirement. In this case, Unitil would add 3 fields to the monthly invoices. These fields would simply aggregate the data that already exists on the invoice each month. Those fields are: - Host Generation Surplus Exported to Grid - Host Electricity Imported for Use The third field in most cases is the sum of the above two fields but that's not the case for our installation. We have a separate utility that provides: - Host Generation (i.e., total generation or production) That value can easily be generated by the customer (us). If these suggestions were undertaken, collecting and filing this report would be an annual event that would be far less onerous for those of us interested in the environment.

We should not be charged the commercial rate presently assigned to domestic septic and well pumps. The pumps are 100% for Domestic use. Please help NH taxpayers lower their high electric expenses.

I support this bill.

I support this bill.

This is not necessary.

I live in Stratham in a condo association where 62 individual free-standing private dwellings are sharing, in groups of two, a septic system. That is 31 septic systems that are each shared by two separate single family dwellings. A separate meter is place on one of the dwellings in each of these pairs to measure the electrical usage of the pumps for each of these shared septic systems. This usage is currently charged at a much higher commercial rate, instead of the lower private rate, although the usage is clearly residential. Please pass this bill to correct this inequity.

This bill is long over due. The 76 homes in the Vineyards in Stratham are all seniors. They never should have been paying commercial rates for living in single family residential Please correct this inequity. Thank you.

I live in an over 55 community. We own our homes and our land. We are listed as a condominium association. I support HB 1432 as it will require that electric utilities assign the residential/domestic rate classification to my residential neighborhood condominiums for electric service to our domestic septic and well pumps; not the commercial rate presently assigned to our domestic septic and well pumps

I believe it is fair to assign the residential rate to residential condominium rather than the commercial rate. I am a resident of an over 55 residential community. This seems like a sensible change for our domestic septic pumps and well pumps. Thank you

Residential Condominium Associations should be charged the same electric rate as condominium residential units for domestic septic and well pumps, the commercial electric rate should not be charged. This Bill should be approved as "Ought to Pass". Respectfully submitted, Dick Swett

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