Press Releases

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• PURA Extends Coronavirus Payment Program Enrollment Date Through February 9 2021

  Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) is reminding all customers that the enrollment period for the COVID-19 Payment Program for both residential and non-residential customers is extended through at least February 9, 2021. Further, the Winter Protection Program, which protects eligible households against heat source shut-offs during the winter months, is also in effect from November 1, 2020 through May 1, 2021.

• Third-Party Electric Supplier Targeting Low-Income Households Amid COVID-19 Crisis

• PURA Recognizes April as Call Before You Dig Month

• PURA Announces May 5 Webinars to Communicate Resources Available to Customers of the State's Regulated Public Utility Companies in Response to COVID-19

• PURA Letter to CT Congressional Delegation

• PURA to Investigate Eversource Delivery Fee Increases

• PURA Ruling Provides Additional Flexibility to Renewable Energy Projects Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic 

• PURA Approves Revised Standard Service Electric Rates

• Aquarion Water Company Issues Mandatory Irrigation Ban

• Revised Electric Standard Service Generation Rates

  The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) is advising Eversource and United Illuminating (UI) residential and business customers of revised standard service generation rates that become effective January 1, 2021 through June 30, 2021.

• PURA Unanimously Adopts Final Decision of Supplier Marketing Standards Proceeding

• Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Orders Eversource and United Illuminating to Overhaul Education and Outreach Efforts Related to Energy Assistance Programs  

• PURA Makes Sweeping Changes to Electric Rate Adjustment Process Following Investigation into July Bill Increases

  Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) issued a ruling today after concluding its parallel investigations into the unexpectedly high electric bills received in July and August by customers of the Connecticut Light and Power Company d/b/a Eversource Energy (Eversource) and The United Illuminating Company (UI).

• PURA Extends COVID-19 Payment Program Enrollment Date

• PURA to Release Final RFP in Equitable Modern Grid Proceeding on May 6