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As of 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 30,634 of Eversource’s 1,281,332 Connecticut customers were still waiting to have their power turned back on. An additional 174 United Illuminating customers were also dealing with outages.
In Fairfield County, Eversource customers were still reporting outages in:
- Danbury: 4,617 (12.32 percent of customers);
- Ridgefield: 3,244 (29.52 percent of customers);
- Newtown: 2,271 (19.82 percent of customers);
- Wilton: 1,649 (21.89 percent of customers);
- Westport: 1,642 (13 percent of customers);
- Brookfield: 1,325 (15.67 percent of customers);
- New Canaan: 1,149 (13.53 percent of customers);
- Monroe: 1,111 (13.92 percent of customers);
- Stamford: 1,080 (1.76 percent of customers);
- Bethel: 1,047 (11.67 percent of customers);
- Weston: 653 (16.85 percent of customers);
- Greenwich: 435 (1.54 percent of customers);
- Norwalk: 241 (0.76 percent of customers);
- New Fairfield: 277 (4.55 percent of customers);
- Redding: 58 (1.51 percent of customers);
- Sherman: 117 (5.87 percent of customers);
- Stratford: 104 (0.44 percent of customers);
- Darien: 44 (0.54 percent of customers);
- Fairfield: 41 (0.17 percent of customers);
- Shelton: 31 (0.17 percent of customers);
- Trumbull: 14 (0.10 percent of customers).
Eversource said that they estimate restoration will be “substantially complete” by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday.
The company noted that “the restoration process is dynamic and as we restore neighborhoods, we continue to identify a high level of individual problems on service lines.
The outage map includes outages from the following sources:
- Storm-related outages as reported during the storm period;
- Storm-related outages identified during the restoration process;
- Intentional outages to make the area safe for ongoing restoration;
- New outages not related to the storm, such as a car hitting a pole.
“We know how urgently customers need their power restored, especially right now given the pandemic and hot summer weather, and we are making significant progress,” Eversource President of Regional Electric Operations Craig Hallstrom said.
“Our crews and the thousands of out-of-state crews working alongside them have done a tremendous job under difficult conditions – working in the heat while abiding by social distancing and pandemic safety protocols. The field crews and thousands of support personnel working behind the scenes are committed to staying on the job until every customer has their power back.”
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