from Paul Bolduc on page 49. "And I looked up what that is the ·9· ·equivalent to.· That's like running three 10· ·industrial-sized washing machines at one time.· And 11· ·nobody can provide me an explanation as to why the 12· ·electric usage is demonstrating that.· And many 13· ·nights throughout those bills I'd have a whole 14· ·spreadsheet as to the data, and I actually just 15· ·submitted a complaint to the Attorney General's 16· ·Office earlier today. 17· · · · · · · ·They also, when I called National Grid 18· ·and they were going to review all of this, I called 19· ·once the bill came out in May.· They said that they 20· ·would not give me a case number when this was under 21· ·review, and they also offered me a $100 credit for 22· ·providing me misinformation that the bills spike up 23· ·when the smart meters first are installed and then 24· ·they come back down to the mean." Wait, what??
some corrections were made after the initial email was sent out
from Paul Bolduc on page 49. "And I looked up what that is the ·9· ·equivalent to.· That's like running three 10· ·industrial-sized washing machines at one time.· And 11· ·nobody can provide me an explanation as to why the 12· ·electric usage is demonstrating that.· And many 13· ·nights throughout those bills I'd have a whole 14· ·spreadsheet as to the data, and I actually just 15· ·submitted a complaint to the Attorney General's 16· ·Office earlier today. 17· · · · · · · ·They also, when I called National Grid 18· ·and they were going to review all of this, I called 19· ·once the bill came out in May.· They said that they 20· ·would not give me a case number when this was under 21· ·review, and they also offered me a $100 credit for 22· ·providing me misinformation that the bills spike up 23· ·when the smart meters first are installed and then 24· ·they come back down to the mean." Wait, what??
From Helen Walker's testimony on page 38: "People with solar panels 22· ·are charged two opt-out fees.·" Does this mean that customers in MA who have solar installations that send power back to the grid are allowed to Opt-Out? In RI they can't. Here is the (weak) explanation I found from the RI PUC. It's on pages 5-6. (For some reason I haven't been able to copy and paste images into the comments.) https://ripuc.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur841/files/2025-01/RI%20Energy%2024-38-GE%20%28AMF%20Opt-Out%29%20Ord25247%201-2025.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawSL8PtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFEQkFLdHdaNmFra3dsMjFlc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgFfFgr1jTQRnp86K13yUtPqvb7k2D6FMnFBNFJCLVIrAHm4Z_roEwgUVcDa_aem_YWdncwAnv9YZVD36yaQtuZsKj86m&brid=YWdncwEtuvPly5ywYhUcBgetZBIA
I thought the name Acadia Center sounded familiar. Here they are in testimony July, 2023 to the RI PUC prior to the PUC's decision to authorize RI Energy's AMF infrastructure proposal. Of course they strongly supported TVR and TOU. https://ripuc.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur841/files/2023-07/2249-Acadia%20Center_AMF%20comments_7-19-2023.pdf