NH Energy Companies

Electricity Distribution Companies

Public Service of New Hampshire - PSNH

Largest NH utility company. Wholly owned by Northeast Utilities. Generation, transmission and distribution operations. Serves ~70% of NH retail customers. 1200 employees. Revenue: $1.013 billion,(Dec 2011).
https://www.psnh.com/CompanyInformation/Company-Information.aspx

New Hampshire Electric Co-op

Large NH electricity distribution company. Supplies electricity to ~82,000 homes and businesses.Serves Colebrook, Sunapee, Andover, Plymouth, Meredith, Conway, Alton, Ossipee and Raymond districts. 202 employees. Renevue: $124 million (2011)
http://www.nhec.com/about.php

Liberty Energy/Granite State Electrical Company

Granite State Electrical Company was owned by National Grid  USA but since July 2012 ownership changed to Liberty Energy Utilities whose parent company is Algonquin Power and Utilities Company. Serves western and southern areas of the state and ~6% of retail customers. Liberty Utilitiies is a water, natural gas and electric transmission and distribution company owned by publically traded Algoquin Power & Utilities Corp. Liberty Utilities acquired National Grid's New Hampshire natural gas and electricity distribution businesses, previously know as Energy North Natural Gas and Granite State Electric Company for $285 million in July, 2012. The parent corporation, Algoquin Power and Utilities Corp is based in Oakville, Ontario. Diversified business with 44 hydro facilities, a 99 MW wind operation, a waste to energy plant, two biomass facilities and five natural gas fired power plants in Canada and the US
http://www.libertyutilities.com/east/gas/about/media_room.html

Unitil Energy Services (UES)

A subsidiary of Unitil Corporation created out of the acquistion and merger of Concord Electric Company and Exeter and Hamiliton Electric Company. Publicly traded electricity and natural gas distribution company serving customers in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine. Natural gas distribution is largely along Seacoast and electricity distribution is in Concord and Seacoast areas..  ~ 11 % of NH retail customers.

Natural Gas Distribution Companies

Unitil/Northern Utilities Inc

Publicly traded electricity and natural gas distribution company serving customers in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine. Natural gas distribution is largely along Seacoast and electricity distribution is in Concord and Seacoast areas.. Approximately 29,000 natural gas customer in NH. Unitil purchased the Northern Utilities Company from Bay State Gas Company, MA in 2008. Corporate offices in Hampton, NH.
http://www.unitil.com/

Liberty Utilities

Water, natural gas and electric transmission and distribution company owned by publically traded Algoquin Power & Utilities Corp. Liberty Utilities acquired National Grid's New Hampshire  natural gas and electricity distribution businesses, previously know as Energy North Natural Gas and Granite State Electric Company for $285 million in July, 2012. Serves approx. 87,000 natural gas customer in NH along the Merrimack Valley from Nashua to the Lakes Region and in Berlin as well. Corporate headquarters is in Salem, NH. The parent corporation, Algoquin Power and Utilities Corp is based in Oakville, Ontario. Diversified business with 44 hydro facilities, a 99 MW wind operation, a waste to energy plant, two biomass facilities and five natural gas fired power plants in Canada and the US. 

http://www.libertyutilities.com/east/gas/about/index.html

Cogeneration Companies

Concord Steam
District heating company that has been supplying steam to downtown Concord since 1938. ~100 customers. Fuel is wood chips and a small amount of electricity generating capacity, 2MW, is available. Reportedly one of the few wood fired district heating plants in the world. The operation plans to relocate in 2013. The new $70 million facility will be larger in size and will have a bigger 18MW generator.
http://www.concordsteam.com/index.html

Fuel Oil and Natural Gas Companies

Sprague

Sprague Resources LP (NYSE: SRLP), founded in 1870, owns and operates a network of strategically located refined product and materials handling terminals in the Northeastern United States and Quebec, Canada.

A publicly traded master limited partnership, Sprague is one of the largest suppliers of industrial, commercial, and residential energy products and related logistics services in the region. The company owns and/or operates a network of 19 refined products and materials handling terminals strategically located throughout the Northeast that have a combined storage capacity of approximately 14.2 million barrels. Sprague provides fee-based procurement, handling, storage and delivery of materials on 2.7 million short tons of bulk and break bulk goods, and also supplies more than 56 billion cubic feet of natural gas behind 46 utility locations across 12 states and Washington, D.C. Headquartered in Portsmouth, N.H., Sprague has more than 600 employees.  

http://www.spragueenergy.com/action-bar/about

Fred Fuller Oil and Propane Company, Inc

The largest full service oil company in New Hampshire. 

http://www.fullers.com/

Solar Energy Companies

ReVision Energy

Operating in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Over 3000 solar energy systems installed. 

http://www.revisionenergy.com/index.php

Energy Efficiency Companies

Resilient Buildings Group

NH construction management and auditing company focused on energy efficient projects for industrial and commercial buildings. Looking to new and existing structures that are resilient, high performance, energy efficient comfortable, durable and costs effective to operate. Largely owned by non-profit energy think tank - The Jordan Institute. 

 http://www.resilientbuildingsgroup.com/about-us.html

LighTec Inc.

Lightec, Inc. is a comprehensive  Energy Services company, providing whole building retrofit services to the large and small commercial/ industrial customer, including state and local government, manufacturing, schools and other businesses. They are New Hampshire's largest provider of precision engineered lighting solutions and they design and install energy management systems, as well as recommend and perform upgrades to the building shell and HVAC systems. Lightec also works closely with utility companies to secure any incentives that are available through their Large and Small Commercial and Industrial rebate incentive programs.

http://www.lightec.net/

Please note this is an ongoing multi-month project. If you have any recommendations for companies to include or information to add, please drop me a note at;

mooimanm@franklinpierce.edu

Thanks

Mike Mooiman
Franklin Pierce University.