Energy and climateFinding
Connecticut should remove the public benefits charge from electric bills.
Connecticut electric bills include a public benefits charge that pays for programs such as energy efficiency, solar incentives and some power contracts. Removing it would lower bills and require those programs to be cut or paid for another way.
Ned Lamont
Using state bond funding as a means of reducing public benefits charges is one action we can take to provide some savings on consumers' electric bills, but I must stress that this is only one step
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