PURA voted 3-0 Wednesday, in a vote that was scheduled months ago, to approve an average increase of between $3 and $4 per month for Eversource and United Illuminating customers starting in September.

By Doug Hardy, CTNewsJunkie.com 

Connecticut residents who were still angry over this month’s electricity rate hike were gobsmacked this week when the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) voted unanimously to impose another one, albeit much smaller, with little more than two months before legislative elections.

Republicans reacted by issuing a statement suggesting Democrats were “tone deaf” about the impact of the state’s high electricity costs. But less than 24 hours after the authority’s vote, three of the four top Democrats on the Energy and Technology Committee released a statement announcing that they had submitted a request to PURA to reconsider its April decision.

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