Advocates deliver petition to governors office calling for lower energy bills NBC Connecticut [Video]

Utility customers are turning frustration into action. On Thursday, advocates hand-delivered 68,000 signatures to Governor Ned Lamont’s office.

“The public benefits need to be removed from our energy bill,” advocate Scott Pearson said. “I know people are very upset about this, and this is not going to go away.”

Customer Donnetta Campbell was among the group. She brought copies of her Eversource bills in hand.

In June, Campbell was paying $87 in public benefits; by August, that amount jumped to $816.

“My bill was around $1,200 a month, [then] my bill was $3,200, I just about fell off my chair,” Donnetta Campbell, of Middlebury, said. “It is making me look at my kids who are down in Raleigh, should I relocate to Raleigh sooner than I planned?”

A solution, however, is not so simple. Sen. Jeff Gordon (R-Woodstock) said he would like legislatures to meet in a special session to …