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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 123
January Session, 2023
LCO No. 674
Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
SEN. FAZIO, 36th Dist.
REP. BUCKBEE, 67th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE PUBLIC UTILITIES REGULATORY
AUTHORITY, THE REGULATION OF ELECTRIC RATES AND STATE
PUBLIC POLICY CONCERNING ELECTRICITY GENERATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to: (1) Separate the Public 1
Utilities Regulatory Authority from the Department of Energy and 2
Environmental Protection; (2) provide the authority with the discretion 3
to make decoupling orders and determine a decoupling mechanism 4
pursuant to such orders that would benefit ratepayers and reduce 5
outages; (3) permit settlements of rate cases only if (A) the terms 6
conform with the principles in section 16-19e of the general statutes, (B) 7
the parties to the settlement appear before the authority to answer 8
questions about the settlement, and (C) the settlement is for a period not 9
longer than that of the underlying rate case; (4) reduce the public policy 10
charges embedded in electric rates or fund such public policies in the 11
state budget; (5) require that Combined Public Benefits Charge and the 12
Federally Mandated Congestion Charges be separated from Delivery 13
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called "State Policy Charges"; (6) redefine "Class I renewable energy 15
source" to include trash-to-energy facilities, conventional hydropower 16
facilities, and nuclear power facilities and eliminate the "Class II 17
renewable energy source" category; and (7) create a task force to study 18
the procurement of standard service electricity contracts. 19
Statement of Purpose:
To lower the cost of energy for ratepayers in the state.