A local consumer advocate group and state agencies are asking the Public Utilities Commission to reverse a recent decision allowing Eversource, the state’s largest energy provider, to raise its fees.

The July ruling allowed Eversource to raise its residential customer charge – the flat fee all customers pay regardless of usage — by $6 dollars, to just under $20 per month and allow it to increase by $2 per year through 2029 until it reaches $43 dollar per month.

The Office of the Consumer Advocate, the New Hampshire Department of Energy, and the state’s AARP chapter all filed rehearing motions on Aug. 22, which is the first step to requesting an appeal on this decision.

Don Kreis, the state’s consumer advocate, called the decision to approve the fee increase “plainly illegal.” He sai

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