Rhode Island regulators kept Rhode Island Energy’s allowed return flat and denied a second year of increases, but the winter supply rate the company filed adds an estimated $30.93 a month for a typical 500 kWh home over summer. The next governor, chosen Nov. 3, will appoint future PUC commissioners with Senate consent.
Maine’s next governor got a to-do list Wednesday, and Rhode Islanders opening this winter’s electric bills will recognize a good share of it.
The American Economic Liberties Project, which describes itself as a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, released a policy primer with Acadia Center, the Conservation Law Foundation, the Natural Resources Council of Maine and Our Power. It is written for whoever wins Maine’s governor’s race, and its targets are that state’s investor-owned utilities, Central Maine Power and Versant Power…