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.
The United Illuminating Company cares about your safety. If you see a downed power line, always assume it’s live and stay away. When working outside with ladders or trimming limbs, know where overhead power lines are and stay away. For more safety tips, visit uinet.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Do you live in a house of energy horrors? Does “phantom” energy menace your monthly budget? Are you letting energy “vampires” suck you dry?
It’s enough to make you want to scream.
You don’t have to let unnecessary energy loss bedevil your budget. UIL Holdings Corporation (NYSE: UIL), parent company of The United Illuminating Company, The Southern Connecticut Gas Company, Connecticut Natural Gas Company and The Berkshire Gas Company, offers tips and tools to help customers fight back against the hidden horrors that can drain the lifeblood from their budgets.
Hurricane Gloria was a first for many Connecticut residents.
It had been more than a dozen years since the last major tropical system crossed the state’s shores — and that storm, Agnes, had already weakened into a tropical storm by the time it reached Connecticut in June 1972.
Pipes and Poles 