More Connecticut communities looking at municipal option for utility delivery

After the debacle of October's freak winter snowstorm which paralyzed parts of the Northeast for days, and had hundreds of thousands of Connecticut residents without electrical power for as much as 10 days, the fallout cost the president of Connecticut Power & Light his job and now the issue has been taken a step further as the Connecticut State Legislature is holding hearings about how communities can go about creating their own local utilities. See "Groups mull over idea of more community-owned utilities" from the New Haven Register.

When Montgomery County Councilman Phil Andrews floated a similar idea with regard to Pepco and Montgomery County, due to the rampant service failures experienced there, local newspapers (the Gazette opinion columnists, Washington Examiner) excoriated the idea. See "Press piling on Montgomery County's utility dreams."