CL&P is sending out-of-state line and tree crews to New York and New Jersey, and adding some of its own crews to help out, now that all Sandy-caused outages that can be restored are back in service.

The company held onto  3,300 linemen and tree-clearing workers that were brought in for Sandy restoration until it [...]

Nine days after Sandy left more than 500,000 Connecticut Light & Power customers without electricity, the number of fixable outages from the historic storm has fallen to zero, the company said Wednesday.

Despite that milestone, the utility that covers 149 cities and towns in the state had 2,700 line workers and more than 1,300 tree [...]

By 4:30 p.m. Monday, 8 percent of the CL&P service area was out of power and those in the dark included, by coincidence, the heads of both unions representing line workers.

Frank Cirillo and John Fernandes, business managers of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers locals 457 and 420, respectively, took it in stride. hey [...]