Governor Ned Lamont Tuesday held a ceremony to celebrate his recent signing of a bill that puts new regulations on utility companies. The measure was passed in a special session last week following a big Eversource rate hike over the summer, and prolonged outages following a tropical storm. The new law requires Eversource and United Illuminating to reimburse people for lost food and medicine after a long outage. It also ties the companies' profits to reliability of electric service.
Matt Dwyer is an editor, reporter and midday host for Connecticut Public's news department. He produces local news during All Things Considered.