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04 Sep 2011, 2:11 pm

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They have said that emergency services are prioritized but NOBODY in town has power including the fire stations.

EVERYBODY in Groton and Norwich does. Except for the small amount of people who are served by CL&P and not the local utility companies.

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I think he's saying these small power companies that are privately owned managed to rebuild their networks and essentially get power back to their customers (not just the emergency services), while the idiots at the Government run Power Company can't even get power back to the hospitals.


^^Right on.


I'm pretty sure CL&P is private. It's a subsidiary of Northeast Utilities which is definitely private (traded on the NYSE). Were you talking about some other unknown government run power company?


That doesn't mean CL&P isn't getting Government support like any other favored entity we see with crony capitalism.



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04 Sep 2011, 4:42 pm

Seems to me that the power companies made the same mistake a lot of Aspies make in the workplace--they figure out the best way of getting a big job done and dived right in--trying to do it best they can.

BIG MISTAKE!! !

It took me a while to figure out that folks with NOTHING to CONTRIBUTE have an intense NEED to get involved.

The big power company needed to slow down to get everyone involved, even if it wasn't the best way to get power restored in a statewide natural disaster. A lot of work situations are the same way--a "good" worker puts in the time for political BS, even though it may not seem to be the best way of doing things.

The "logical" algorithm used by the big power company is to fix the lines closest to the power plants first, and then work your way to the ends of the lines. The rationalization is that customers at the end of the lines will have to wait until all the lines that go to the power plant are fixed--so why fix their lines first if there is no power to put into them? If you start fixing the lines next to the power plant first, you can immediately put those customers back on line as you go.



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04 Sep 2011, 11:49 pm

BTDT wrote:
Seems to me that the power companies made the same mistake a lot of Aspies make in the workplace--they figure out the best way of getting a big job done and dived right in--trying to do it best they can.

BIG MISTAKE!! !

It took me a while to figure out that folks with NOTHING to CONTRIBUTE have an intense NEED to get involved.

The big power company needed to slow down to get everyone involved, even if it wasn't the best way to get power restored in a statewide natural disaster. A lot of work situations are the same way--a "good" worker puts in the time for political BS, even though it may not seem to be the best way of doing things.

The "logical" algorithm used by the big power company is to fix the lines closest to the power plants first, and then work your way to the ends of the lines. The rationalization is that customers at the end of the lines will have to wait until all the lines that go to the power plant are fixed--so why fix their lines first if there is no power to put into them? If you start fixing the lines next to the power plant first, you can immediately put those customers back on line as you go.


However the small power companies got their power grid completely restored before the large ones could even get power to the hospitals in their area.

Complete power restoration vs. no power restored

I think the smaller power companies had the right idea, and they could argue if people yell about them not having the hospitals up first, that it makes no sense to fix the lines around the hospital when the lines closer to the plant aren't back up, and the hospital wouldn't get power anyways without those lines being up in the first place.



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05 Sep 2011, 5:37 am

The small companies have the advantage of generating their own power locally.

In 1998, Connecticut began to deregulate when the state legislature passed a law to restructure the electric utility into three divisions: generation, transmission and distribution. On January 1, 2000, that law went into effect and CL&P no longer controlled the generation of power, as independent companies took ownership over the power plants. However, despite the loss of their generation ownership, CL&P and Northeast Utilities continued to oversee transmission and distribution through their substation facilities and power lines.

While it seems may seem strange to have big power companies without power plants, consider two realities.

1) CT has a legacy of nuclear plants that aren't going away any time soon

2) NIMBY, not in my back yard has made it impossible for big companies to put new plants into small towns that are far from the nukes.



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07 Sep 2011, 7:55 am

http://www.theday.com/article/20110907/ ... 914/-1/nws
Pointing out that "municipally owned utilities in Norwich, Groton and Jewett City" were able to restore power in their communities more quickly than those served by CL&P, the congressmen suggested that the company should "assign at least one work crew to each municipality to work in conjunction with local public works and municipal elected officials."