 Jim Judge, the Eversource exec who largely disappeared from public view after a massive power outage, will appear before the legislature’s Energy and Technology Committee.
Energy and Technology Committee
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Despite dissatisfaction, committee sends energy bill to the floor
The Energy and Technology Committee Thursday voted to send major energy legislation to the full legislature for consideration, despite widespread dissatisfaction with the bill as it exists now. The approval came after assurances from committee leadership that the bill would be revised further before it’s debated on the floor.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Nuclear brinksmanship: Does Millstone need help to stay open?
Lobbyists crowded into a committee room at the General Assembly to watch the inevitable advance Tuesday of a bill that sponsors say would simultaneously lower electric rates and stabilize profits generated by the Millstone Nuclear Power Station. Opponents say the bill would cost ratepayers and produce a windfall for the plant’s owner, Dominion Resources of Virginia.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Politics
Nuclear power’s regulatory campaign comes to Connecticut
Evan Bayh, the former governor of a coal-burning, nuclear-free state, arrived in Hartford as the smiling face of the nuclear power industry Thursday, making a soft sell for Connecticut to consider ways to keep its Millstone station economically viable.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Connecticut’s timid approach to clean energy penalizes consumers, costs state jobs
The Connecticut legislature’s reluctance to fully launch a program to develop a system of shared renewable energy is not only costing the state jobs and federal energy subsidies. It is also causing the state’s consumers to pay more than they have to for electric power. We are missing the clean energy revolution.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Connecticut legislators set energy agenda for 2015
With a packed audience of lobbyists waiting and watching, a legislative committee approved three dozen bills Tuesday that define the General Assembly’s relatively modest ambitions on energy policy in 2015. The more significant bills would ban variable electric rates for residential customers, cap the fixed-costs portion of electric bills and authorize state officials to explore expanding the supply of natural gas in Connecticut.
Posted inMoney
About face: Legislators push ban on variable electric rates
A new push to ban variable electric rates is a tacit admission by key legislators that a 2014 consumer protection law was insufficient to protect customers against bait-and-switch marketing by some of the electric retailers who compete with United Illuminating and Connecticut Light & Power, now known as Eversource Energy.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Could the ‘Shared Solar’ movement work in shady Connecticut?
With 80 percent of Connecticut homes unsuited for solar power, the legislature is considering the concept of shared solar.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Widespread dissatisfaction with energy bill process and changes to renewable power
Plans to rush major energy legislation through the General Assembly as soon as Wednesday are raising cries of foul from dozens of normally unaligned groups. Their concerns are prompted in part by timing: It’s two months before the draft report most of the legislation is based on finishes its required public review.