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Tornado warning ends in Litchfield County, more than 3,600 without power in CT FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 A file photo of a United Illuminating crew working on utility poles in 2016.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for most of western Connecticut Wednesday afternoon, as a cold front pushed a line of storms and rain through the state. A tornado warning was briefly issued for part of Litchfield County shortly before 3 p.m., but was replaced with a thunderstorm warning that stretched east into northern Hartford County a lit...

Tornado warning ends in Litchfield County, more than 4,700 without power in CT FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 A file photo of a United Illuminating crew working on utility poles in 2016.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 2of3 A file photo of an Eversource Energy crew working in 2019.Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 3of3 A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for most of western Connecticut Wednesday afternoon, as a cold front pushed a line of storms and rain through the state. A tornado warning was briefly issued for part of Litchfield Co...

CT officials, United Illuminating reach agreement to reduce and stabilize customer electric bills FacebookTwitterEmail A sign in front of the United Illuminating Operations Center on Marsh Hill Rd. in Orange photographed on August 10, 2020.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media State officials have struck a deal with The United Illuminating Co. for a $46.5 million COVID-19 relief bill credit from the Orange-based company, a move that Gov. Ned Lamont and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said Wednesday will decrease and stabilize electric rates into 2023. The deal between the utility a...

Eversource warns of scammers targeting utility customers FacebookTwitterEmail An Eversource Energy truck parked across from the Prospect Street electrical substation in Greenwich, Conn., Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. On Tuesday, more than 10,000 Greenwich residents sustained a loss of electricity for nearly two hours according to Eversource Energy.Bob Luckey Jr. / Hearst Connecticut Media Kim Masse of Northeast Garage Door Systems is used to getting telephone scammers calling her Plainville business on a regular basis. But Masse said she got multiple calls last month from people claiming to be fr...

Demand for natural gas service in CT continues despite pandemic FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInRedditPinterest Photo: Contributed photo Efforts to expand natural gas service to more Connecticut residents in 2020 were slowed by the coronavirus pandemic, but are still ongoing, according to officials with the state’s three largest utilities that provide the fuel. The effort to expand natural gas service was launched in 2014 at a time when natural gas prices were at historic lows. Those prices have continued to remain low through much of last year. “The demand for natural gas has never been gre...