Utility provider Eversource Energy said Wednesday it’s making a leadership change as current Chairman, President and CEO Jim Judge plans to step away from running the day-to-day operations to become executive chairman of the board.
Joe Nolan, Evesource’s executive vice president of strategy, customer and corporate relations, will be promoted to president and CEO and is also expected to be elected to the board of trustees in May, the company said. The change will take effect in May.
Judge has served as Eversource’s president and CEO since 2016 and chairman since 2017. Under his leadership, Eversource introduced its corporate clean energy strategy and carbon neutrality plan, the company said.
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Connecticut regulators have rejected a proposal from Eversource and United Illuminating to begin disconnecting service to customers with unpaid bills.
The decision was made after they reviewed customer phone calls that showed the companies failed to provide sufficient information regarding options for payment plans.
The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority ruled that providers cannot reapply for regulatory approval until after Governor Ned Lamont’s declaration of a state of emergency expires or when the winter protection period ends on May 1.
The state’s utility regulator ordered that the providers must make sure that “sufficient customer resources and protections” are implemented before resuming disconnections.
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Attempts by thieves or state-sponsored groups to hack into utility technology systems are ever evolving, but the COVID-19 pandemic added new wrinkles for Connecticut utilities in their efforts to keep their defenses strong.
According to a newly released annual report by the state Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, bad actors over the past year sought to take advantage of potential weaknesses caused by the sudden and unexpected shift to employees working from home.
That included an increase in attempted attacks that targeted remote employees’ VPN connections as well as online meeting platforms.
“Company networks are now less vulnerable, since there was less centralized activity on those networks,” PURA said in its fourth annual report on utility cybersecurity. “However, this now heavily distributed workforce added new vectors for attack, most notably on individual accounts and systems.”
Vaccine side effects lead to educator staff shortage
April 5, 2021
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MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) Several Connecticut school districts have been forced to close or stop in-person learning for a day, after educators attending vaccine clinics called in sick with side effects from the shot.
Manchester schools reported a shortage of teachers and bus drivers on Monday after a vaccine clinic for educators was held there over the weekend.
“I understand the challenges this causes for parents and families and had hoped to avoid going remote for the day,” Matt Geary, the town s school superintendent wrote to the community Monday. “I apologize for the inconvenience.”