Standard service rates paid by the 66 percent of Connecticut residential utility customers who purchase their power from the state’s two utilities will rise slightly from summer rates come January, but will be lower than last winter’s rates, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) announced Thursday.
Eversource’s residential generation rate — which is just a part of the myriad charges included on electric bills — will rise from a six-month summer rate of 6.61 cents per kilowatt hour to a six-month winter rate of 7.87 cents on Jan. 1. Last winter, Eversource’s winter rate was 9.56 cents.
Meanwhile, Avangrid’s generation rate will rise from a summer rate of 8.02 cents to a winter rate of 9.26 cents. That’s down from last winter, when Avangrid charged 10.74 cents.
