Enough Electric Rate Rhetoric

Saturday March 8, 2025, the Providence Journal published a commentary by Seth Handy: Western RI deserves better strategy to stay warm

In the March issue of the Rhode Island Bar Journal, Seth writes of the dangers of continuing a “business-as-usual” approach to Rhode Island’s energy system, and the economic opportunities we can grasp by embracing new and transformative technologies and meeting the...

Rhode Island Energy has set record high electric rates for Rhode Island, a 47% increase per household and up to 51% for commercial accounts ('Record-high winter electric rates sought: ‘Something we’ve never seen before,’ ' News, July 21). The Journal reported that...

Helen joined Laura Bartsch and Joe Walsh in this Boston Globe commentary that asks RI's leadership to plan for the mechanics of delivering our own clean energy future instead of leaving it up to others and remaining at the end of the pipe by default.

National Grid has exited Rhode Island with $5.3 billion. The agency review process refused to allow advocacy for the public interest in rate reduction, allowing the utilities to continue capitalizing on their economic interests in infrastructure investment and their...