A field trip is always a treat for school kids.
But two fourth-graders at West Woods School in Hamden recently got a special surprise during their recent class outing to the Energize Connecticut Center in North Haven:
A visit from Dad.
While Connecticut embraces the push to bring natural gas to more homes and business, there is a need to have a trained workforce who can convert customers from oil to natural gas.
For the past year, UIL has been supporting — with a $322,000 investment — a gas utility worker-training program organized by the Capital Workforce Partners Jobs Funnel in Hartford. Through this program, unemployed or underemployed urban residents, or individuals who need and deserve a second chance at a career, get training in the installation and maintenance of gas pipelines.
It’s Throwback Thursday. We dug into the archives for a few photos from years gone by at our UIL companies, highlighting just a few of the buildings we once occupied in the communities we still serve.
When you’re making a holiday gift list and checking it twice, remember that the best present is a safe and efficient home where family members feel the warm glow of the season without worry.
In order to provide some holiday help, UIL Holdings Corporation and its family of companies — UI, SCG, CNG and Berkshire Gas — present a holiday safety and efficiency gift guide for everyone in the family.
The United Illuminating Company recently completed a year-long project to upgrade the electrical system serving more than 4,000 customers in New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood.
“This recently completed initiative provides a more modern electric infrastructure for residents of Fair Haven, so that they can continue to receive the high level of safety and reliability that they have come to expect from UI,” said James P. Torgerson, president and chief executive officer of UI’s parent company, UIL Holdings Corporation.
The project, which kicked off with a community meeting in February, upgraded the 4,160-volt electrical circuits that had served the neighborhood for 60 years. That meant replacing 240 poles, 91 transformers and more than 120,000 feet of wire.
The new system meets current safety standards and operates at 13,800 volts, a standard voltage for modern electric infrastructure.
Everyone likes to save money.
If you are a residential customer of The United Illuminating Company who receives the Standard Service generation rate, there’s a lot to like coming soon. Effective Jan. 1, bills will be lower compared with last winter.
If you’ve stepped into a home improvement store lately, you probably already know that light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are the biggest thing in light bulbs. Here are a few things you might not know about them.
UIL Holdings is putting the spotlight on its investments in natural gas infrastructure in a new television commercial, now airing in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
The spot, called “Kicking Gas,” features crews from all three of UIL’s natural gas companies: The Southern Connecticut Gas Company, Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation and The Berkshire Gas Company.
Pipes and Poles 