United Illuminating

United Illuminating

Infobox Company
company_name = The United Illuminating Company
company_type = Public (nyse|UIL)
foundation = 1899
location = New Haven, Connecticut, USA
origins = Formed by the merger of New Haven Electric Company and Bridgeport Electric Company in 1899.
key_people = James P. Torgerson - President & [CEO] of UIL Holdings Corportion]
area_served = Southern Connecticut
industry = Electric Utilities
products = transmission and distribution
homepage = [http://www.uinet.com/ www.uinet.com] ,
[http://www.uil.com/ www.uil.com]

The United Illuminating Company (UI) is an electricity distributor for southern Connecticut. It currently serves roughly 320,000 customers in 17 municipalities in the Greater Bridgeport, New Haven, and Lower Naugatuck Valley regions. It is a regulated, investor-owned electric utility and a subsidiary of UIL Holdings Corporation.

Prior to Connecticut's electric deregulation legislation in 1998, UI operated generating plants in Bridgeport, and New Haven.

Major Projects

The United Illuminating Company, along with Northeast Utilities, has participated in a number of projects to improve the reliability of the power grid in southwest Connecticut. The first project was construction of the $350 million 345 kilovolt Bethel-Norwalk transmission line through the western part of the state, and was constructed entirely by Northeast Utilities, the state's other major power transmission and distribution company. The United Illuminating Co. and Northeast Utilities are in the process of completing the 69-mile (112 km), 345 kilovolt Middletown-Norwalk transmission line at a cost of $900 million.


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