Massachusetts families and businesses pay some of the highest electricity rates in the nation. That's not inevitable. It's the result of bad policy, weak oversight, and a system rigged to work for utility companies and well-connected contractors instead of the people paying the bills. Eversource and National Grid operate as monopolies and they act like it. Rate structures are opaque, fixed charges keep rising, and working families absorb costs that should fall on large commercial users. That stops here.

We need to pursue energy solutions that make sense and deliver real value, not lock working families into decades-long contracts designed in boardrooms to maximize shareholder returns. No major energy investment should ever be handed to a private conglomerate without strict rate protections or public ownership stakes. We must also reform Mass Save so it actually works for renters and working families, expand municipal aggregation so towns can negotiate better rates directly, and cut the red tape that keeps cheaper energy projects stuck in limbo while ratepayers foot the bill.

It's time we hold these corporations accountable and put Massachusetts families first.