Press Releases

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• PURA Releases Third Quarter 2024 Newsletter

• PURA Announces Electric Rate Adjustments to Take Effect July 1

  The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) is advising Eversource Energy and United Illuminating residential and business customers of revised standard service generation rates that become effective July 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024.

• PURA's Approval of CT Water’s Rate Case Includes Key Enhancements to Customer Focused Policies and Programs

  Decision expands Water Rate Assistance Program (WRAP) for eligible customers, and updates customer service and billing practices

• Governor Lamont Nominates Marissa Paslick Gillett to Serve as a Commissioner of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority

  Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is nominating Marissa Paslick Gillett of Baltimore, Maryland to serve as a commissioner of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA), the state entity responsible for regulating the rates and services of Connecticut’s investor-owned electricity, natural gas, water, and telecommunications companies.

• Connecticut Water Planning Council Seeks Public Comment on Draft of State Water Plan

  The members of the Connecticut Water Planning Council (WPC) today announced that they have published a draft version of the State Water Plan that they have been developing onto the council’s website (www.ct.gov/water) and have opened a public review period to give Connecticut residents, businesses, and other stakeholders an opportunity to provide feedback before it is finalized early next year.

• DEEP Launches Resource Assessment in Response to Executive Order 59

  Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) and the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) have launched a joint process that will lead to a study of the current and projected future viability of the Millstone nuclear generating facilities, the role of such facilities as well as others in meeting Connecticut’s carbon and other emission targets, and mechanisms to achieve those targets.

• PURA Opens Rate Adjustment Proceeding After Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

  Today, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) initiated a proceeding to consider adjustments to rates that may be appropriate for Connecticut customers of regulated utilities, to account for revisions to tax laws—including corporate tax rates--contained in the recently enacted Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Act).

• PURA Commissioners Elect Chair and Vice-Chair

  Today the Commissioners of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority re-elected Commissioner Katherine S. Dykes as PURA's Chair and Commissioner John W. “Jack” Betkoski, III as Vice-Chair.

• 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.

• DEEP and PURA Release Final Resource Assessment, Appraisal, and Determination of Millstone Report

  Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) and the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) today released the final Resource Assessment, Appraisal, and Determination of Millstone Report regarding the current and projected future viability of the Millstone nuclear generating facilities, the role of such facilities as well as others in meeting Connecticut’s carbon and other emission targets, and mechanisms to achieve those targets.

• Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Announces Landmark Equitable Modern Grid Framework

  In a decision expected to have far-reaching implications for the state’s electric sector and green economy, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA or the Authority) voted yesterday to approve its plan to modernize the electric grid.

• PURA Encourages Eligible Residents to Access the Federal Lifeline Program to Stay Connected During the COVID-19 Crisis

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

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

• PURA Calls for Third-Party Electric Suppliers to Cease Door-to-Door Sales during COVID-19 Crisis