DR 96-150
                                     
                        STATEWIDE ELECTRIC UTILITY 
                            RESTRUCTURING PLAN
                                     
           Order Directing Connecticut Valley Electric Company 
                 to Show Cause for Failure to Comply with 
                             Order No. 22,875 
                                     
                         O R D E R   N O.  22,921
                                     
                               May 11, 1998
                                     
         On March 20, 1998, the New Hampshire Public
     Utilities Commission (Commission) issued Order No. 22,875
     which, inter alia, established revised compliance filing
     requirements pursuant to RSA 374-F:4, III.  In the same
     order, the Commission stayed the compliance filing
     requirements as to Public Service Company of New Hampshire
     (PSNH) due to an outstanding temporary restraining order
     issued by the United District Court in PSNH et al. V. Patch
     et al., N.H. Civil Action No. 97-97-JD, RI Civil Action No.
     97-121L.  Except for PSNH, the deadline established in Order
     No. 22,875 for compliance filings was May 1, 1998.  
         The following utilities submitted timely
     compliance filings: the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative
     (NHEC), Granite State Electric Company (GSEC), and Concord
     Electric Company and Exeter & Hampton Electric Company
     (Unitil).  Connecticut Valley Electric Company (CVEC) did
     not submit a compliance filing.  Instead, CVEC filed a
     letter which stated that it considers the May 1, 1998 date
     for compliance filings "to be deferred until after the
     United States District Court conducts the hearing presently
     scheduled for November 1998 and rules on the merits of the
     claims asserted by CVEC and CVPS."  
         In light of the foregoing, CVEC is directed to
     appear at a hearing on June 11, 1998 at 10:00 A.M. to show
     cause as to why it should not be penalized pursuant to RSAs
     365:40-44 for its failure to comply with Order No. 22,875.  
          
         Based upon the foregoing, it is hereby
         ORDERED, that CVEC is ordered to appear at a
     hearing on June 11, 1998 at 10:00 A.M. to show cause as to
     why it should not be penalized for its failure to comply
     with Order No. 22,875 and why further action pursuant to
     RSAs 365:40-44 is not warranted.  
         By order of the Public Utilities Commission of New
     Hampshire this eleventh day of May, 1998.
     
     
                                                                 
      Douglas L. Patch    Bruce B. Ellsworth     Susan S. Geiger
          Chairman           Commissioner         Commissioner
     
     Attested by:
     
     
     
                                      
     Thomas B. Getz
     Executive Director and Secretary