Heading to UConn Law School tomorrow

Tomorrow I'm guest lecturing at UConn Law School, in Professor McCary's Energy Regulation and Policy Class.  I love teaching and am looking forward to it.  My focus will be on the volatility of electric prices in recent months, from the perspective of the residential consumer, and how this involves a myriad of issues across various jurisdictions and branches of government.  Should be a good conversation!

Electric suppliers investigation

A lot of our time this month has been taken up with our involvement in the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority's (PURA) investigation of the electricity supplier market.  I and other members of my office have attended public hearings, and other events, where folks have discussed their experience this winter with electric suppliers.

We have heard many heart-breaking stories from people whose electric rates have doubled or tripled in the matter of a month or two.  It's particularly worrisome to hear from senior citizens with electric heat who say that they have turned the heat way down and are living in homes that at 50 degrees.  Surely we can come up with a better solution than that for them and others.

Stay tuned...we have filed our testimony in that investigation today, and we are also working on some proposed legislative reforms, that we hope announce in a few days.