As the state official tasked with representing the interests of New Hampshire’s residential utility customers, I laughed when I read this headline: “Utility to contribute $2.4 million to save Concord gasholder building from demolition.”

In reality, Liberty (as the owner of the gasholder building) is not contributing anything: every dime of that $2.4 million will be collected from ratepayers. In my experience, utilities love to build up goodwill by taking credit for virtuous initiatives that are actually paid for by customers rather than utility shareholders. The Monitor should not let utilities get away with stuff like that.

Donald Kreis

Concord