Connecticut families pay some of the highest energy costs in the country while the CEO of Eversource earns more than $19 million a year — over 100 times what a frontline lineman makes. It’s time to rein in utility excess, give towns real options, and build an energy system rooted in renewables, resilience, and fairness. I'm not just going to complain about Eversource. I have a plan to break their grip on our state:

• Take on Eversource’s monopoly

  • Change our eminent domain laws. Right now, if a municipality or the state wants to acquire utility infrastructure, we have to pay market value — whatever Eversource's investors think the assets are worth. I'm proposing we change the law to allow acquisition at book value — what the assets actually cost, minus depreciation. That's the only way a public option becomes affordable.

  • Create statewide ballot initiative rights. Connecticut is one of the few states where citizens can't put questions directly to voters. The legislature has a monopoly on what gets voted on. I want to change our constitution to give people that power. We need two tracks to win this fight — one through the legislature, and one that lets the people act directly when the legislature won't. That's how you build real pressure for change.

  • Revoke the monopoly. Eversource has an exclusive franchise to serve most of Connecticut. There's no competition, no alternative, no accountability. We should open their franchise rights to review and create space for municipal utilities or a state-run option.

  • A public power option. Whether it's municipal utilities, a statewide consumer-owned authority, or something else — we need an alternative to a for-profit monopoly that answers to Wall Street instead of working families. Other states have public power systems that deliver cheaper, more reliable electricity. Connecticut deserves that choice.

• Return utility profit margins to reasonable, historical levels

• Make it easier for towns to form or join municipal electric utilities

• Create state-backed financing tools for municipalities to buy distribution infrastructure

• End state support for natural gas expansion

• Adopt a binding transition plan off natural gas

• Expand rooftop and community solar with guaranteed interconnection timelines

• Make historic investments in undergrounding electric lines

• Expand microgrids for towns, schools, and critical facilities

• Accelerate heat pump adoption

• Tie CEO pay to frontline worker pay

• Ban ratepayer-funded executive bonuses