Gov. Dannel Malloy on Friday morning will release the findings of the independent review of the response by the state and its utilities following the Oct. 29 snowstorm that knocked power out to most of Connecticut.
Berlin electric utility Connecticut Light & Power has come under increased scrutiny following the snowstorm, where 830,000 of its customers were without power, some from nearly two weeks. CL&P President Jeffrey Butler resigned following the criticism, and CL&P’s parent company Northeast Utilities has created a $30 million fund to reimburse some customers for their losses.
The report to be released was conducted by Washington, D.C. consulting firm Witt Associates, and is one of the main reviews into CL&P’s response to the storm. The Witt report reviews other aspects of the state’s response to the storm, not just CL&P’s outage problems.
Following Malloy releasing the findings at 10 a.m., Charlie Fisher, Witt Associates vice president, will give a presentation to Malloy’s Two Storm Panel, which is reviewing the state’s response to Tropical Storm Irene in August and the Oct. 29 snowstorm.
