Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha (left) says Rhode Island Energy is shortchanging customers on energy bill discounts. Greg Cornett, company president (right) says Neronha is “playing politics.” (Photos by Christopher Shea and Nancy Lavin/Rhode Island Current)
Few could find fault with the prospect of hundreds of millions of dollars in winter energy bill credits for Rhode Islanders.
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha can, and is, arguing that Rhode Island Energy is lowballing customers in the discounts required under the terms of its 2022 acquisition of the state’s gas and electric business…