Jim Judge, the Eversource chairman and president who largely disappeared from public view after a massive power outage, will appear before the legislature’s Energy and Technology Committee, whose leaders outlined bipartisan regulatory review legislation. Judge was roundly condemned for his refusal to join Gov. Ned Lamont in taking questions outside Eversource offices on Aug. 5, a day after 800,000 Eversource customers lost power after a tropical storm veered to the west, leaving most of Connecticut on the windward side of a storm that snapped branches and uprooted trees. At the same press event, the chair of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority said that Eversource badly underestimated the threat of the storm by preparing for between 125,000 and 380,000 outages. The Eversource trustees agreed, paying Judge a $3 million bonus that swelled his compensation for the year to $19.8 million. Shareholders didn’t object.
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