It's like the phone companies. They charge you different rates depending on when you make a call.

This is the cost we pay to secure contracts. It's a pass-through cost.

We know it might not have prevented every one, but it would have made a significant difference in the number of outages we had in January.

We don't know what the savings would be. It's not really cut and dry. Definitely there would be a savings for consumers, but to say what people would save is too difficult.

We are doing what the DPUC has asked us to do.

All available CL&P crews have been dispatched and are being assisted by contractors and crews from our sister company, Public Service of New Hampshire. Unfortunately, this storm has caused damage along the East Coast and therefore crews from neighboring utilities are not currently available to assist with the restoration.

It's a reliability issue and a safety issue, too. In Greenwich, the numbers speak for themselves.