While it is beneficiary that the Witt report came out about Connecticut Light and Power’s inefficiencies during the October 29 snow storm, it is highly unlikely to change anything. CL&P will take one look at the report, release a statement saying they are taking the suggestions into account , and then throw it away without changing anything.
The most surprising issue from the court was learning that CL&P was only prepared for an emergency with power outages to ten percent of its customers. Given all of the weather conditions in the northeast as well as other emergencies that could take place, perhaps they should have been prepared for a bigger outage.
Also, the company had known for days that the storm was coming, and that the damage would be catastrophic. More orders should have been standing by to prepare everything as soon as the storm was over. They were standing by during tropical storm Irene, so they definitely could have been ready for this storm.
Nobody will know if anything has changed until the next major power outage is expected to occur. Everyone in the state of Connecticut now is certainly hoping that changes have been made, not just on paper but in reality as well.
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