You better pay now, say Eversource and United Illuminating, or we'll cut off your gas and electricity.
But. Not quite yet. Connecticut regulators have agreed to allow the utilities to shut off power to delinquent
customers starting May second of next year. They've been blocked from doing that for two years, a ban that
began with the pandemic. At Eversource alone during that period, past due amounts for broke customers have
increased 38 percent. This growing bad debt has to be paid, says Eversource. And, that's right, it says it'll be paid
in the end by all customers.
