Shoutout Alaska being a whole ass country away and still being cheaper LMAO. So essentially unless you're a literal volcanic island, CT is the most expensive, and it's not by design?

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We need nuclear power.

Alaska has oil coming out of its ears

Agreed, but all the rich people on the coast who use a lot of energy will never let it happen.

So bulldoze a large section of Waterbury and put it there.

We have it. Remember Millstone?

It’s more expensive than Natural Gas and even some of the green energy.

Isn't Millstone closed?

You are the one that said we need it but don’t know if we have it or not?

Close Reddit and open google

How about this, we need more nuclear plants. One in every county at a minimum. Two in mine.

OP we all knew this already.

We are second behind Hawaii.

Whoop, sorry if I missed another post on it! Just thought it would be of interest.

No your article is current you did nothing wrong what I am saying is this is old information, like years old many residents know already.

Clearly your advice is well researched and well founded.

I don’t even disagree with you. I just really need people like you to be smarter so it can actually happen. Do better

sorry I'm late

FUCK EVERSOURCE

Stupid people are more fun.

Oil needs to be refined you know. So it leaves Alaska to get refined then gets shipped back.

Fuck that...

I would rather pay more for electricity than live anywhere near a nuclear power plant.

Alaska has 3 oil refineries

Edit: I got this answer after you posted by googling. You could have too.

National grid customers in Massachusetts will actually be paying more than Hawaii at .48 kwh. Still cheaper than California with its peak time of use rates where its like .68 kwh. I just read some post here recently where people in Europe are saying its almost $1 euro a kwh in a few counties which is just nuts.

From Lamont's press release the other week.

As of January 1, 2023, Connecticut’s all-in residential electric rates ($0.35/kWh) for both Eversource and UI will be within the same range as most New England utilities, including New Hampshire ($0.33/kWh to $0.39/kWh) and Rhode Island ($0.29/kWh). Only Maine ($0.24/kWh to $0.28/kWh) and Vermont* ($0.18/kWh) are lower. Meanwhile, customers of National Grid and Unitil in Massachusetts are paying over 40% higher rates than Connecticut at $0.48/kWh and $0.42/kwh (Note: Electric rates change seasonally and on different timeframes for each utility; these figures are subject to change).

Nuclear is the safest and least polluting of any of the non renewable power sources. Not to mention the depleted uranium and be recycled to be used again at something like 75% yield.

That is not the issue at all. And that's ignorant to think it.

... until it isn't safe then it kills or gives cancer to everything in the surrounding area.

For example the Fukushima plant that is still spewing radiation into the Pacific Ocean 11 years later and probably will continue to do so thorought our kids and grandkids lifetimes.

Fukushima was a tsunami that devastated the entire area. The levels of radiation being leaked in the ocean are still well within the limits of regulation. Chernobyl was Russian engineering at it's worst. US has had 0 nuclear accidents from power plants. You're just fear mongering.

Protest at the state capital at noon on Sunday!!! Time for lawmakers to stand up to Eversource.

Protest at noon at the state capital against Eversource.

just a slight correction. a nuclear accident occurred at Three Mile Island in PA back in 1979 but fortunately the safety system worked and was contained by the containment system. I grew up in Waterford near Millstone and work for the USN on nuke subs and support nuke power 100%.

So that isn't an accident. That's the system running as designed.

Building a nuclear plant in a heavily seismically active zone wasn’t the brightest idea. However, that’s Japan. We don’t have that level of activity here. While no locale is immune to the threat of a meltdown, if it were to happen, Geologically, we’re a whole hell of a lot safer of a location.

I’d be more worried about another asteroid taking us out than I would be of a nuclear plant meltdown happening here.

technically it was an accident (partial meltdown) because of a system failure related to system operation and human error and subsequently coolant loss but a back up system prevented a catastrophe so yes the system worked. I would agree with you that our nuke systems are some of the safest in the world.

It's kind of the issue. In efforts to get away from dirty energy, governments in NY have blocked pipelines that could carry gas to the region. That's why gas is much cheaper in PA, while New England is the most expensive region in the country.

Utilities should not be publicly traded. They made over $9B in revenue in 2021. They pay the CEO over $20M. It’s complete BS!

Plus they pay bonuses.

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