Healey tells DPU to review, lower gas and electric bills

In another effort to lower energy costs, Governor Maura Healey called on the Department of Public Utilities to identify gas and utility charges that can be adjusted, lowered, or removed entirely.

“The bottom line is that gas and electric bills are too high, too volatile for people in the Northeast, and so we’re doing everything we can within our power to cut them down,” Healey said in a press conference Tuesday .

Healey also asked the DPU to ensure infrastructure costs are necessary and efficient and to expedite new solar power construction before the Trump administration’s federal tax credit rollbacks on clean energy take effect on Dec. 31 .

“It certainly doesn’t help that we have a federal administration that’s blocking energy sources like wind and solar for no good reason,” H