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Pondering An Appointment to PURA......
As actor Frank Gorshin used to say when he portrayed The Riddler on the old Batman television series, "Riddle me this......."That's the reaction I was left with on Tuesday when Gov. Dannel Malloy...
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More Changes At State Utility Regulator
Less than 24 hours after announcing that he was appointing Arthur House, a former Webster Bank executive, as a director of Connecticut's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, Gov. Dannel Malloy now...
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Battle To Close Bridgeport Power Plant Begins Monday
A group fighting a renewal of the operating permit for Bridgeport Harbor Stationwill make its case before officials with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection during an...
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UIL Holdings Executives Get Pay Hikes
If you're an investor and you're not looking at a company's filings with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission, then you're missing out on a lot.For example, I'm willing to bet that most of...
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If It's Wednesday, Tom May Must Be In Connecticut
Five weeks after taking over as the new president and chief executive officer of Northeast Utilities, Thomas May clearly has a steep learning curve. Stepping into his new role after the company he...
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Public Willing To Pay Premium For National Clean Energy Standards
A new study conducted by researchers from Yale and Harvard universitiesfinds that the average American is willing to add $162 to their annual electric bills in return for a national standard that...
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Blumenthal Urges Confirmation of Connecticut Native To Head NRC
With a Connecticut native having been nominated last month to head the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, went before the Senate Environment CommitteeWednesday to...
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United States Trails Much Of The World In Energy Efficiency Efforts
A new study ranking the nations of the world in terms of energy efficiencyhas England in first place and the United States lagging behind in ninth.The rankings were released Thursday by the non-profit...
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Message To UI: Do Your Job So We Can Do Ours
Saturday's downpours yielded a comparatively small number of power outages when viewed in the context of last year's Tropical Storm Irene and the October snow storm.But for the 400-plus United...
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Union Files Complaint Against CL&P
BREAKING NEWS: Two International Brotherhood of Electrical Workersunion locals have filed a complaint against Connecticut Light & Power with the National Labor Relations Board.The complaint, filed...
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NU Names Midwestern Utility Executive As Jeff Butler's Replacement at CL&P
BREAKING NEWS: After searching for more than 10 months to find a replacement for Jeff Butler, Northeast Utilities has hired a Midwestern utility executive to become president and chief operating...
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New And Improved Outage Maps Only As Good As The Information Being Fed To Them
Technology is a wonderful thing when it is used to better inform people and make their lives easier. It's not clear that the new customer outage map available...
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United Illuminating Company Hosts Visitors From Foreign Utilities
The United Illuminating Co. is attracting a lot of attention for its advanced metering system.The Orange-based utility played host late last month to representatives for from a Chinese utility, whose...
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Power Grid Operator To Release Plan For Meeting New England's Electric Needs...
Thursday morning in Boston, ISO-New England will hold a public meeting to review a draft plan it has developed for dealing with the region's electric needs over the next decade.ISO-NE’s 2012 Regional...
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Renewable Energy Non-Profit Picks Connecticut Solar Program To Receive SLICE...
The film industry has the Oscars, the television industry has the Emmys and Broadway has the Tony Awards. And if you're in the business of creating renewable energy programs for state government...
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A Plea For Help From Southbury
Connecticut Light and Power and The United Illuminating Co., will spend some of Tuesday helping municipal road departments in communities across the state clear downed power lines and trees from...
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Wallingford Expects Swift Power Restoration
The municipal electric department in Wallingford has often been held up as paragon of the way power providers should do business in storms and that hasn't changed in the aftermath of Hurricane...
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More Ammunition Against Natural Gas Proposal In Governor Malloy's Energy Plan
With public hearings on Gov. Dannel Malloy's comprehensive energy plan going on this week, home heating oil dealers are fighting hard to overturn the portion of it that focuses on natural gas.. The...
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Burned Wire Knocks Out Power To Some UI Customers
A burned wire in The United Illuminating Co.’s distribution network left over 1,800 of the utility’s customers in New Haven without power for part of Tuesday afternoon.Michael West (shown at left), a...
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Two Northeast Utilities Companies Heavily Fined For Storm Response
If folks in Connecticut thought that the companies that make up Northeast Utilities didn't do an adequate job dealing with the two major storms in 2011, wait until they see what Massachusetts utility...
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