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Eversource, UI generally support PURA's performance-based proposal but flag equity, grid-edge and implementation issues
Summary
The two Connecticut utilities told PURA they broadly back moving to a more performance-weighted incentive structure but recommended limiting enrollment incentives to residential and priority commercial customers, supported a three-month grace period for projects, and flagged grid-edge adder, telemetry, and project-maturity documentation concerns.
Connecticut's two electric distribution companies, Eversource and United Illuminating, told the PURA technical meeting they support transitioning the ESS program to stronger performance incentives and a smaller enrollment payment while flagging design and operational concerns, including how to preserve equity objectives and how to reduce project attrition.
Why it matters: The utilities implement and bill the program and raised operational and equity questions that would affect how funds are allocated and how projects proceed through interconnection and DERMS integration.
UI and Eversource said they concur with PURA's proposed levelized performance payments and the…
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