NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Northeast Utilities

Northeast Utilities (NU) is a publicly-traded, Fortune 500 energy company headquartered in Berlin, Connecticut, with several regulated subsidiaries offering retail electricity and natural gas service to more than 2 million customers in New England.

NU is New England's largest energy delivery system, with more than 3,000 circuit miles of electric transmission lines and 32,800 pole miles of distribution lines throughout the region, and a natural gas distribution system encompassing more than 2,000 square miles in Connecticut.

Its electricity subsidiaries include Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECO), Connecticut Light & Power Company (CL&P) and Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH). Its Yankee Gas Services Company also provides retail natural gas service to parts of Connecticut.

NU was formed on July 1, 1966, with the merger of CL&P, WMECO and The Hartford Electric Light Company under a single parent company, creating the first new multi-state public utility holding company since the enactment of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. In 1967, Holyoke Water Power Company (HWP) joined the NU System, followed by PSNH in 1992.

In November 2005, the company announced it would sell its unregulated competitive businesses, including generation and energy services. In November 2006 the company had essentially completed the divestiture of its competitive businesses.

External links

Northeast Utilities official site

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Northeast Utilities Selects Counterpane Internet Security for Managed Security Services (675 words)
	Northeast Utilities, a Fortune 500 diversified energy company located in Connecticut with operations throughout the Northeast, will use Counterpane's security monitoring and managed vulnerability scanning services to increase its level of protection against hacker attacks and system vulnerabilities and as part of its compliance strategy with current and future cyber security requirements and government regulations.
	Northeast Utilities operates New England's largest utility system and through its competitive and regulated subsidiaries, it provides a full range of energy products and services to millions of residential and business customers from Maine to Maryland.
	For Northeast Utilities, Counterpane will be monitoring network security devices including firewalls and intrusion detection systems as well as critical IT assets inside the perimeter to prevent attacks from disrupting business operations.

WebWire® \| ADVA Optical Networkings FSP 2000 selected for Northeast Utilities new data center (481 words)
	Northeast Utilities ultimately selected the FSP 2000 because of ADVAs proven ability to support multiple protocols over the distances and age of existing installed fiber, as well as ADVAs long-standing certifications with Northeast Utilities storage providers.
	Though Northeast Utilities application services were not ready for changeover to the new data center, ADVA was able to run tests on the gear to prove to Northeast Utilities that all ports would operate properly and channels would transport traffic.
	When Northeast Utilities switched operations to its new data center in April, there was no interruption in services for network users.

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