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said. “I spoke to the attorney general, who’s speaking to his staff. I have not heard from the governor.”

Senate Bill 7 has elements of the Democrats’ Senate Bill 966 and the Republicans ’ Senate Bill 123.

Katie Dykes typically speaks for the Lamont administration on energy issues as the commissioner of DEEP, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. She offered measured support for SB 966 in written testimony.

“DEEP supports many of the principles reflected in this bill, including ensuring that utility and utility executives’ compensation is based on performance and macroeconomic conditions; greater transparency on the cause of outages and the incidence of accidents; and clarity regarding which business expenses should be allocated to utility shareholders versus ratepayers,” she said.

Both SB 966 and SB 123 address “rate decoupling,” a mechanism that addresses the utilities’ disincentives to encourage energy efficiency and rooftop solar by ensuring utilities’ compensation is not strictly based on the amount of electricity they sell. Rate decoupling currently is mandated by state law.

In testimony, Dykes warned against giving PURA too much discretion in how to enforce rate decoupling.

“Divorcing a utility’s compensation from its volume of sales through revenue decoupling is considered one of the foundational aspects of a performancebased ratemaking regulatory paradigm that seeks to encourage distributed energy resources, ” Dykes said. “As such, giving PURA wide discretion to reverse revenue decoupling, without clear objectives or implementation guardrails, could have the potential to undermine demand reduction policies and programs. ” to curate who they aim to solicit for funds previous donors, members of the Facebook page, and others. Sharon Danosky, president of the firm, advised that the committee should focus on local foundations like the YMCA and American Savings Foundation for larger grants, along with individual donors.

Connecticut has limited authority over the electric rates charged by Eversource and United Illuminating, regulating only the cost of distributing electricity to homes and businesses, not the source of its supply.

More than half of consumers ’ bills are the cost of generating electricity, which is set by a competitive market.

Elements absent from the compromise bill include language that would have reestablished PURA as independent of DEEP.

This story originally appeared on the website of The Connecticut Mirror, www.ctmirror.org.

She advised being cautious of relying on corporate donors, despite their heavy presence along Queen Street, as they are far less likely to contribute.

“If you’re looking at corporations, really look at their giving guidelines. And if you don’t fall smack within them, don’t even waste your time,” Danosky said. “Corporate giving, just for some perspective, about $485 billion was given to charities last year, 4% came from corporations. So it kind of gives you a sense, corporations aren’t very generous. I think you’re better off if you have a really good local relationship.”

She also cautioned against soliciting civic organizations, as they generally don’t have significant money to spend for large-scale donations to projects of their size.

“You might get $5,000 from them, but if you’ve got to raise a million $5,000 doesn’t go very far. So they’re at the later stage of the campaign. We’re really trying to see who can give you $100,000,” said Danosky. “That’s ideally what we’re looking for.”

Local banks and financial organizations seemed to be other groups the committee seeks to solicit for their campaigning efforts, which will roll out sometime in the next few months.

“We’re going to be out to advertise maybe in a couple months,” said Mary Baker, a member of the committee.

For the immediate future, the committee aims to review its comprehensive donor lists as they narrow down those most likely to contribute to the fund. Though the details have yet to be finalized, Todd Chaplinsky, vice chair of the Capital Campaign and Library Building committees, spoke at their last meeting of making a multi-pronged network of advertisements over social media and elsewhere to tar- get residents of all income levels accentuating the importance of the library as a flexible community center. The members considered bringing on members from other town committees to provide further input on the decision-making process, though no determination was made during the meeting. cmetzger@record-journal.com

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