Eversource, Avangrid sue PURA, claiming CT utility regulators violated law for years

Eversource and Avangrid sue Connecticut utility regulator over decision-making process

Eversource and Avangrid are suing Connecticut's PURA, alleging Chairwoman Marissa Gillette has monopolized decision-making since 2020.

Eversource, UI sue PURA, alleging Marissa Gillett overstepped

Connecticut’s largest electric, gas and water utilities have filed a lawsuit against their state regulators, accusing the leader of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority of wielding unilateral control over cases and decisions affecting the companies’ businesses.  Eversource and United Illuminating sued PURA and its leadership in Hartford Superior Court Thursday. Eversource subsidiaries Yankee Gas Services Company and Aquarion, a water utilit…

Eversource and Avangrid file court injunction against PURA, Gillett

Eversource and Avangrid, Connecticut’s two largest utility providers, filed for an injunction against the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) in Superior Court, requesting the court put an end to PURA’s “improper procedures,” that “harm the plaintiff’s constitutional rights and interests,” according to the court complaint.“PURA’s conduct has left the plaintiffs with no choice but to seek the requested declarations and injunctive relief …

Eversource, Avangrid sue PURA, claiming CT utility regulators violated law for years

Connecticut’s major utilities are accusing the state’s top regulator of freezing fellow commissioners out of the rate setting process and unilaterally issuing hundreds of questionable decisions in a lawsuit that suggests trust has fallen to a new low among players in the state’s regulated utility industry. The suit filed Thursday in Superior Court by subsidiaries of Eversource and Avangrid accuses Marissa Gillett, Gov. Ned Lamont’s appointee as …

Connecticut Utilities Sue State Regulator Over Rate-Setting Process

timesng.com: HARTFORD, Conn. — Two of Connecticut‘s largest electric companies, Eversource and Avangrid, filed a lawsuit against the state’s top utility regulator on Jan. 31, 2025, alleging improper decision-making in the rate-setting process. The companies claim the chairman of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) is making unilateral decisions that should require a majority vote from […] This post Connecticut Utilities Sue State Re…