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Speaker 1: Eversource was looking for an increase of some thirteen percent

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Speaker 1: on which rates for sixty percent of their customers. The

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Speaker 1: Department of Public Utilities ruling against that increase this week,

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Speaker 1: saying it wasn't justified because Eversource hasn't achieved certain performance

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Speaker 1: metrics like customer satisfaction. It's unclear what the new specific

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Speaker 1: rate will be, but we know the Department of Public

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Speaker 1: Utilities is shedding some forty five million dollars from distribution

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Speaker 1: charges from ever Source. They were also seeking a seventeen

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Speaker 1: percent rate increase for another two hundred thousand legacy customers

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Speaker 1: who used to be served by Columbia Gas. DPU has

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Speaker 1: not ruled on that proposal. It's still pending. Jim McKay WBZ,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio