Connecticut’s two major electric utilities both claim to be ahead of schedule for their restoration timetables Monday with only 33,000 customers still in the dark. Northeast Utilities says it is sending some of its natural-gas repair crews to assist in New Jersey’s recovery efforts.
Northeast Utilities is sending 30 natural gas workers from its Connecticut and Massachusetts subsidiaries to help the New Jersey Natural Gas Co. in its restoration. The crews from Yankee Gas in Berlin and NStar Gas in Boston will depart from Waterbury at 2 p.m. Monday and stay in New Jersey until their help is no longer needed, officials said.
NU’s recovery efforts in New England has focused on electricity restoration. Berlin electric subsidiary Connecticut Light & Power had 22,997 outages as of 10:30 a.m. Monday, representing 1 percent of their total customers. CL&P had a self-imposed goal of Tuesday to get 98 percent of customers restored, a threshold the utility crossed on Sunday.
The majority of remaining NU outages are in Fairfield County, and Greenwich and Wilton have the greatest percentage of customers still without power.
New Haven electric utility United Illuminating – a subsidiary of UIL Holdings – had 10,460 outages as of 10:30 a.m. Monday, representing 3 percent of its customers. UI had a self-imposed goal of Monday to get 95 percent of customers restored, a threshold the utility crossed on Sunday.
