BERLIN — The Berlin City Council heard a presentation Monday about a new public non-profit entity for municipal- and county-based entities that procures electric power supply on behalf of residents for those communities that join it.
Henry Herndon, with the newly organized Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire, was at the city’s regularly scheduled work session Monday to present a proposal from the coalition.
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