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Ned Lamont: “We made them a deal. We said almost 5 cents a kilowatt hour.”

Featuring: Ned Lamont, Democratic | Governor of Connecticut

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Lower electricity rates approved in Connecticut

Published | Video Starts at 11:18

It wasn't an idle threat. So the state, working in close association with Norman Jonathan, said, we're going to step up and do what we can to keep this plant going. We made them a deal. We said almost 5 cents a kilowatt hour. We'll guarantee that if a price of electricity is less than that, we'll eat it. If it's more than that, we get a benefit. (11:18–11:23)

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Asserts that the state made a deal with Millstone for nearly 5 cents per kilowatt hour.

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