Conn. Legislator Wants PURA to Stop OTMR Plan
A Connecticut House chair warned the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority not to make one-touch, make-ready rules without the legislature’s direction. PURA is mulling OTMR rules in docket 19-01-52RE01 (see 2108120062). Policymakers removed OTMR from a recent bill, now law, submitted…
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by Gov. Ned Lamont (D) after much debate, said Energy and Technology Committee Chair David Arconti (D) in a letter posted Thursday: “An agency should not attempt to legislate outside of the purview of the legislature.” If the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Office of Consumer Counsel want OTMR, they should resubmit a legislative proposal to Arconti’s committee, he said. A PURA spokesperson emailed Thursday, "All feedback is taken under serious consideration by the commissioners. At this stage, we are simply in the information-gathering phase."