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Bruised by criticism of its response to the recent storm, Connecticut Light & Power officials declared that, as of Saturday afternoon, the utility had restored power to more than 161,000 customers. Calling the power outages "historic," CL&P president and CEO Jeff Butler said that "more than 1,000 Northeast Utilities and CL&P employees worked tirelessly under very difficult conditions to restore power to our customers. We literally rebuilt 12 miles of our distribution system in Fairfield County."
Crews hung more than 61 miles of wire and replaced 528 utility poles and 584 transformers, in an effort that required additional hands from Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. The utility had been criticized by homeowners and Governor Jodi Rell for failing to get to work fast enough in the first hours after the storm.
While the cleanup from last week's storn is considered complete, CL&P is reporting new power outages in Norwalk--231 customers without electricity as of 10 o'clock a.m. Sunday.
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