Northeast Utilities Systems News

NORWALK, Conn. -- A half year after Northeast Utilities Co. threw the power switch to its new electric grid in southwestern Connecticut, the utility company and others are standing back to critique the $1-billion project.

Northeast Utilities activated it's emergency storm center after thunderstorms rolled through the state Tuesday afternoon.

Northeast Utilities and American Transmission Company have been named winners of the Edison Award by the Edison Electric Institute for the extraordinary achievements both companies have made this past year.

No route has been decided for a Hydro Quebec line that would bring 1,200 megawatts of hydro power from Quebec to southern New Hampshire, according to utility officials.

They went inA looking for doughnuts, but found death instead. Thomas and Anne Dowling , a retired couple in their late 50s, had been to a movie early Saturday evening, Oct.

Connecticut Light & Power , part of the Northeast Utilities System, is in the preliminary stages of planning a new electric substation in Westport's New Creek Road and Greens Farms Road areas which will strengthen service reliability to Westport, a company spokesman said today.

Northeast Utilities announced today that a former executive of California 's largest utility will replace longtime NU executive Raymond P. Necci as president and chief operating officer of Connecticut Light & Power Co.

Cutover to ACS' Connex 30 solution marks a milestone as the first RIG replacement to go online in ISO-NE market Atlanta, June 2, 2009 - Advanced Control Systems and Northeast Generation Services announced cutover of the first RIG replacement last week at NGS' plant in Hartford, CT.

Connecticut-based Northeast Utilities says it and a Massachusetts company have been given federal approval for a high voltage power line to link a Canadian power plant to New England.

The company hopes the review by the Connecticut Siting Council can revive its Meriden power plant, a 530-MW facility approved years ago but stalled due to lack of a power contract.

Two Connecticut utilities have set up special sessions for customers who may be having problems paying gas and electric bills.

Northeast Utilities reported a 67 percent increase in first-quarter earnings Wednesday, due in large part to the company's investment in new transmission lines and sale of 19 million shares.

Sonia Kjergaard, standing, on site coordinator for the Western Massachusetts Electric Company's work readiness initiative of the Regional Employment Board of Hampden County, looks on during the online math course at Putnam Vocational High school.

When a helicopter carrying three men crashed less than 100 feet from where he stood, Lee Police Officer Craig W. DeSantis knew what he had to do.

Connecticut makes significant investments in clean energy, but little of this money goes toward green transportation.

Northeast Utilities a ' one of New Englanda TMs largest utility systems a ' has plans to begin building charging stations for electric vehicles in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Northeast Utilities said today it is in the initial stages of developing an electric charging infrastructure for plug-in electric vehicles in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Watson Collins, of Northeast Utilities, addresses the energy conference during a panel entitled a oeRevitalizing National Infrastructure.a Experts discussed renewable energy infrastructure in front of a capacity crowd in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room during Saturday's Fourth Annual Tufts Energy Conference.

Charles Shivery, the top executive of Northeast Utilities , received compensation of $6.2 million in 2008, a decline of 7 percent from 2007, according to an Associated Press calculation of data from a regulatory filing.

Word of UnitedHealth Group's planned big move across downtown into CityPlace I was a reminder that a major corporate tenant recently chose to call Hartford home - and without a financial commitment from the state.