Our mission:

We’ve been powering Connecticut for more than 125 years. From day one, the thousands of hardworking men and women at Connecticut Natural Gas, Southern Connecticut Gas and United Illuminating have been powering the state with the energy it needs. We’re your neighbors and your partners, and we are committed to making a positive impact in the communities where we live and work.

We have a proud history of generating safe, reliable energy for our customers, providing opportunities for our employees to grow, and contributing millions of dollars in economic development.

We have plans that will continue providing the energy Connecticut needs and accelerating the state’s energy transition and help continue delivering safe, affordable energy across the state. This includes investing more than 200 major infrastructure projects to address CT’s aging infrastructure. Many of these projects directly support disadvantaged environmental justice communities.

Knowing that progress needs our energy, UI has invested $41 million in projects already serving customers with reliable, resilient electric service that the costs need to be repaid, or recovered, from PURA. And CNG and SCG have made investments to modernize the state’s natural gas pipelines despite PURA cutting funding for a mobile command center to respond in crises, cybersecurity protections and clean energy transition programs.

UI's plans to accelerate transformation with:

Investments in more than 200 projects to improve reliability and resiliency across our service area

Modernizing some of our oldest substations serving homes and businesses in Bridgeport and New Haven

Installing energy storage innovations in senior living centers and other critical facilities in three municipalities we serve

CNG & SCG plans to invest in:

Enhancing Cybersecurity protections and investments to protect critical infrastructure from bad actors

Upgrading Distribution Integrity Management Plan (DIMP) program that replaces leak-prone cast iron pipe

Bolstering its workforces with new, talented employees- 60% of which would be in customer service and gas operations

341,000 United Illuminating customers across southern Connecticut

206,000 Southern Connecticut Gas customers across southern Connecticut

184,000 Connecticut Natural Gas customers across southern and central Connecticut

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Moses Rams

“The draft decision in UI’s rate case represents a knee-jerk response that jeopardizes electricity reliability and harms UI employees, including members of our union workforce.”

Moses Rams

UI Chief Line Crew Leader & Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) Local 470-1 PresidentMoses

Dan Onofrio

“Every public utility in America has the obligation to provide safe and reliable service to customers — but as we can see from UI’s own sustainability proposals, there’s a lot more utilities can do when they operate with regulatory flexibility and financial stability. Since this draft decision undermines both, UI will have no choice but to set aside any “extra” investments in the sustainability space. Forget installing EV chargers, hiring Bridgeport-based energy efficiency vendors, or advancing cutting-edge research on clean hydrogen.”

Dan Onofrio

President & CEO of Bridgeport Regional Business Council

Frank Reynolds

“Ultimately, our customers – who currently enjoy 99% reliability, or less than one outage per year on blue-sky days – will bear the brunt of delayed or disallowed capital investments that keep their power going on the hottest days and coldest nights. Later, when PURA realizes it must approve those expenditures, they’ll be more expensive than ever. And Connecticut’s clean energy goals will remain stubbornly out of reach as long as PURA continues to deny UI’s request to build new infrastructure projects, like electric vehicle chargers, that are key to decarbonization and aligned with the goals of the Lamont Administration.”

Frank Reynolds

President & CEO of United Illuminating

VIEW POINTS

Read Views on Why UI is the Energy CT Needs

Opinion: PURA’s approach is like parallel parking while blindfolded (CT Mirror)

Opinion: Let’s focus on real causes of CT’s energy woes (CT Mirror)

Opinion: For now, natural gas is here to stay in Conn. (CT Insider)