“The Legislature wrote this consumer protection language into the current version of the offshore wind statute. To be asked to remove it and just chuck it overboard is a big deal,” Sen. Michael Barrett, the Senate co-chair of the Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee, said. “You could make a case for letting the rate cap rise in a measured fashion in return for the kinds of concessions that the governor’s people talk about — maybe there’s a connection to storage, maybe there’s some onshore transmission incentive that you would want to build into a calibrated rate increase. But to ask us to jettison it all together, the timing couldn’t be worse.”
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