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Council approves Eversource infrastructure petitions and adopts resolution pushing state utilities regulator to investigate rising bills and streetlight outages
Summary
The council approved a package of Eversource petitions to replace aging gas mains and add electric service lines, and later passed a resolution calling on the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and the Legislature to investigate recent gas and electric rate increases and the utility's responsiveness to streetlight outages.
The Springfield City Council approved a package of Eversource petitions for gas-main replacements and electric upgrades on April 7 and also adopted a separate resolution asking the state Department of Public Utilities and the Massachusetts Legislature to investigate recent increases in gas and electricity costs and the utility’s handling of streetlight outages.
In a single action the council moved and approved petitions numbered 5 through 15, a set of mostly gas-main replacement projects and several electric upgrades. DPW Director Chris Signoli described the work as replacements of “leak-prone” cast-iron and bare-steel mains with modern plastic pipe and installation of new three-phase electric lines where needed for capacity. Keegan Ritchie, Eversource’s director of…
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