Bill Limits Customers' Share of Utility Chiefs' Salaries

When the state’s electric utility companies were slow repairing power lines downed during tropical storm Irene and the Halloween snowstorm, the companies offered little relief for customers in and elsewhere in the state .

The Connecticut Post reported that a Branford lawmaker has proposed a legislative bill would limit how much customers must pay toward the salaries of utility company executives, whose salaries have soared over the past decade.

State Rep. Lonnie Reed, D-Branford, who is vice chairman of the General Assembly’s Energy Committee, told reporters that she is not surprised to learn from a report by the state’s Office of Consumer Counsel that utility company executives’ salaries have increased by 153 percent over the past decade.