Energy Legislation Needs Work, but Solutions Are in Sight

Energy legislation needs work, but solutions are in sight

When SB 1560, An Act Concerning Connecticut’s Economy, Electricity Affordability and Business Competitiveness and Establishing the Connecticut Energy Procurement Authority and the Green Bond was posted, it raised eyebrows. It’s not often a comprehensive 80-page energy bill is introduced in a committee other than Energy & Technology. The bill creates the Connecticut Energy Procurement Authority (CEPA), charged with taking over the buying of elect…

Lawmakers look to get PURA, Gillett off the legal hook with draft energy bill

Buried near the bottom of a 126-page working draft of Senate Democrats’ major energy bill currently circulating at the Capitol is a statutory change that could potentially get the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) and its chairman Marissa Gillett off the hook in the lawsuit filed by Eversource and Avangrid that alleges Gillett improperly issued substantive motion decisions under the guise of the full authority.Gillett had been acting …