Your Electricity Bill Is Already Too High

And it’s going up because Democrats are passing bills to make your public benefits charges even higher.

In 2026, the Democrat supermajority in Hartford passed HB 5340 – a bill which added hundreds of millions per year, totaling billions over time, to the public benefits portion of your electric bill.

In 2025, Senator Ryan Fazio led passage of SB 4, a bill which removed about 10% of the public benefits charges from your electric bill. Not even a year later, HB 5340 reversed that progress almost entirely by adding back public benefits charges.

HB 5340 establishes successor programs to expiring renewable energy programs and supports solar generation — a worthwhile aim. But the point is that these programs should be funded in Connecticut’s budget where they can be vetted and balanced against other priorities, not put onto ratepayer bills without their consent.

Senator Fazio and Representative Tina Courpas voted NO on HB 5340 – keeping campaign promises to lower your electric bills. Greenwich Democrats did the opposite. Representatives Steve Meskers and Hector Arzeno not only voted yes, but co-sponsored the bill, fully in support of new public benefits charges.

Senator Ryan Fazio led the charge to encourage Governor Lamont to veto the bill. Greenwich Democrats did the opposite. Yesterday the bill became law. You can thank Lamont, Meskers and Arzeno when your public benefits charges go up. Then make your move toward a better Connecticut by voting Republican in November.