Power shutoff bans amid pandemic may require cost recovery for utilities

Utility Dive: These parallel efforts to protect consumers and businesses from shutoffs highlight the importance of utility infrastructure and the threat their financial disintegration would pose. The urgency of the letter to congressional leadership follows an effort initiated earlier this month by 830 labor, environmental, faith and civil-rights groups aimed at convincing lawmakers to include a national moratorium on utility disconnections in the next coronavirus aid bill.

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