March 21, 2014
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has closed his investigation into how the state’s largest utility responded to a freak October snow storm in 2011 that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers for days. He announced Wednesday that …
July 12, 2012
Connecticut Light & Power has filed a plan with state regulators to spend $300 million over five years to strengthen its system against storms. The subsidiary of Northeast Utilities says it’s looking to upgrade systems that have performed poorly and …
June 20, 2012
Connecticut Light & Power struck back Monday at Attorney General George Jepsen, who asked state regulators to punish the state’s largest utility for its response to two storms last year. In a filing with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, the …
March 5, 2012
A report commissioned by Northeast Utilities says subsidiary Connecticut Light & Power did not fully recognize the risks of the weather forecast about 36 hours before a destructive October snow storm and failed to aggressively pursue help from other utilities. …