Connecticut Light and Power (CL&P) residential customers are finding lower electric rates in the Connecticut competitive electricity market.  Many CL&P residential customers have still not switched electricity suppliers because they are unaware of the savings and benefits of shopping for low electric rates.

Many electricity customers who have not switched are not well informed on the details of the Connecticut Electricity Restructuring Act.  The act allows for CL&P and United Illuminating (UI) to continue to control the delivery of the power and the billing.  These utility companies only offer supply electricity rates as a default service.  Connecticut customers who do switch electric companies continue to receive their monthly electric bill from CL&P, or UI, but instead of paying the higher default supply electric rate, they pay the new lower rate that they signed for with the alternative electricity company.

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Both offers can be chosen online.  The fixed electric rate will require a commitment of 6 months.  The variable rate has no commitment, however the rate can go up at anytime.  We recommend the fixed rate offer at this time.

Residential power customers are seeing the benefits of electricity deregulation first hand as the electric bills for those electric consumers who have shopped the market are dropping.  Connecticut electric companies are allowing customers to save on their monthly electric bills by offering lower electric prices compared to the default Connecticut electric rates.

CL&P and UI, the incumbent Connecticut Electric Utilities, offer high default electric rates known as the “price to compare”.  The Connecticut Electric utilities do not profit off of the default rates but are mandated to offer the rates to those electric customers who do not choose another Connecticut electric supplier.

Those Connecticut electric customers who do compare electric offers, both residential and commercial, are seeing significant savings on their electric bill.

Connecticut electric residential customers can save an easy 11.5% by locking in a rate with MX Energy of $0.0979 /kwh compared to the residential default rate in the CLP territory of $0.011051.

Positive Energy offers a “no contract” option with a current introductory rate of $0.1006 /kwh.  The no contract option allows you to leave Positive Energy service anytime and go back to the CLP default rate if you wish to do so.

The Connecticut Electric utilities continue to bill the electric customers and control the lines and wires.  When Connecticut electric customers choose another electric supplier, the only thing that changes is the actual rate they pay, everything else from billing to service remains the same.

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