“Electricity bills in New England are poised to experience a sharp increase driven by the clean energy mandates in five of the six states, which require duplicative, overbuilt renewable energy.”
Connecticut ratepayers suffered sticker shock this summer when they opened their July electric bills. While their energy consumption was relatively flat, the “public benefits” component doubled for some and tripled for others. The culprit was not hard to find given a legislative requirement for utilities to itemize the cost components of monthly bills.
“Public benefits” cover the cost of subsidies the state provides for low-income electricity customers and energy-efficiency programs. They also include solar, electric vehicle, and other renewable energy incentives.
The wide array of renewable energy subsidies and aid to low-income residents who cannot afford high-cost electricity, growing everywhere, is an increasing cost burden for power users in the Northeast.
Connecticut: Worst of the Worst
The Northeast has become the most expensive region in the continental United States for electricity. Connecticut has the most expensive electricity in the 50 states outside of Hawaii. Connecticut’s overall electricity price for this September, according to the Energy Information Administration, was 27.08 cents per kilowatt-hour (ȼ/kWh), compared to Hawaii’s 35.46 ȼ/kWh.
When I worked in sustainability at IBM (a joke in itself there), the Northeast was the most smug and misguided about the whole energy/carbon/climate issue. Never have I seen so many smart people (inside and analysts paid by IBM) get an issue so wrong because of ideology.
Well, take your smugness to the electric company and out of your bank account.
Gas is cheap and efficient. It’s not the bogeyman that you made it out to be. You picked your poison, now drink it.
Delusions of Adequacy 
Surprisingly in my little corner of the universe, I have met a handful of people born and bred in CT. This is remarkable since it is the burg of Dogpatch in a western state.
Each of the aforementioned have exhibited amazingly similar characteristics. No other word than ‘bitchiness’ is more suitable to describe them.
Rich and well off, usually by trust fund, hauty in the extreme, sneering in the absolute knowledge that they are never wrong.
One blurted out of the blue, ‘I know you want to sleep with me. That will never happen.’. I admit she was attractive but at that time she was days from marrying. Very strange, except in further consideration not strange coming from a CT gal.
Indeed, now having learned, if I hear that one is from CT, I steer away.
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I worked in CT for years. I couldn’t agree more. Trust funds were dripping at the Stamford Yacht Club (I stayed down the street at a members house I worked for) and Old Greenwich. I hear Darien is like that now as well as a lot of the state. I’ll never go back. the cynic in me says you should have slept with her just to teach her a lesson.
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