Decision reduces utilities’ ability to recoup costs
Eversource and United Illuminating failed to fully prepare for and respond to Tropical Storm Isaias last year, according to State utility regulators who reduced the companies’ ability to recoup costs.
The decision adopted unanimously Monday by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority also could lead to the imposition of civil penalties. PURA chairwoman Marissa P. Gillett said the Authority will move immediately into the next phase of its proceedings and that action could happen as soon as next week.
And while the Authority did not announce specific financial data, the utilities which can challenge this ruling in Superior Court stand to lose millions of dollars.
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HARTFORD – Connecticut regulators on Wednesday criticized the state’s two largest electricity distributors and said they are considering fines over what they called the companies’ failures in their preparation and response last August to Tropical Storm Isaias, which left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the dark for days.
Isaias knocked down scores of trees and utility wires, causing more than 740,000 outages at its peak and a total of more than 1.3 million outages to Eversource and United Illuminating customers. Many customers and local officials expressed anger and frustration at the companies’ power restoration efforts, which took more than a week in some places.
Published April 28. 2021 6:45PM | Updated April 28. 2021 7:47PM
KEITH M. PHANEUF, The Connecticut Mirror
Eversource and United Illuminating failed to fully prepare for and respond to Tropical Storm Isaias last year, according to state utility regulators who reduced the companies’ ability to recoup costs.
The decision adopted unanimously by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority also could lead to the imposition of civil penalties. PURA chairwoman Marissa P. Gillett said the authority will move immediately into the next phase of its proceedings and that action could happen as soon as next week.
And while the authority did not announce specific financial data, the utilities which can challenge this ruling in Superior Court stand to lose millions of dollars.
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