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Frustrations over Connecticut’s high cost of electricity and concerns over its ability to adequately regulate Eversource, the state’s largest distributor of electricity, are fueling a bipartisan effort to revise the complex rules of utility regulation for the second time in three years.
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Connecticut Republicans are proposing to reduce the cost of electricity by removing state taxes and surcharges from customer invoices.
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The Connecticut Energy Assistance Program’s coffers have been swelled with $30 million in additional American Rescue Plan Act money approved by state lawmakers last November, and another $20 million from the federal omnibus spending package passed by Congress last December.
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Assistant Energy Secretary Kathryn Huff visited Waterford, Connecticut, on Tuesday to discuss the federal plan for storing nuclear waste from Millstone Nuclear Power Station and other power stations across the U.S.
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GOP leaders say CT missed an opportunity to do more for families facing a winter heating crisis.
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Retail tax of 25 cents per gallon will be phased back starting Jan. 1 and will be fully restored by May 1.
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State officials, utility companies aim to offer CT residents relief in light of requested rate hikesState officials and executives with Connecticut's two largest electric companies have reached a short-term agreement they say will help people afford a proposed big increase in electric rates at the start of the new year.
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Delay in creating different rates for lower-income customers in CT is raising concerns among lawmakers.
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The Jones Act of 1920 was supposed to protect the U.S. shipping industry. But, Eversource is concerned it could hamper its ability to respond to energy emergencies.
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The week in CT news: Big hikes to electric bills, Google settlement on tracking, UConn bowl eligibleFrankie & Johnny: November 18, 2022. Topics this week include energy providers in Connecticut Eversource and United Illuminating announcing rate hikes set for January, a national “invasion of privacy” settlement with tech giant Google, and the University of Connecticut college football team becoming “bowl-eligible.”