United Illuminating
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| United Illuminating Holdings Corporation | |
|---|---|
| Type | Public (NYSE: UIL) |
| Founded | 1899 |
| Headquarters | New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Area served | Southern Connecticut |
| Key people | James P. Torgerson - President & CEO |
| Industry | Electric Utilities |
| Products | transmission and distribution |
| Website | www.uinet.com, www.uil.com |
The United Illuminating Holdings Corporation (UI) is an electricity distributor for southern Connecticut. It currently serves roughly 320,000 customers in 17 municipalities in the Greater Bridgeport, New Haven, and Lower Naugatuck Valley regions.
Prior to Connecticut's electric deregulation legislation in 1998, UI operated generating plants in Bridgeport, and New Haven.
[edit] Major Projects
United Illuminating has participated in one of three controversial projects to improve the reliability of the power grid in southwest Connecticut. The first project was construction of the $350 million 345 kilovolt Bethel-Norwalk transmission line through the western part of the state, and was constructed entirely by Northeast Utilities, the state's other major power transmission and distribution company. United Illuminating joined Northeast Utilities in completing the 69-mile (112 km), 345 kilovolt Middletown-Norwalk transmission line at a cost of $900 million. To ease community and environmental concerns, both companies agreed to place portions of the line underground where feasible.
