Category: Electric

Customer Can’t Understand CL&P Billing Practices, Sending Dunning Letters To People Who Pay On Time

This email came recently from a CL&P customer. She says she finds no justification for CL&P’s billing process for those like her who always pay their utility bills on time. I guess we need to keep looking at the billing practices of CL&P and its parent company, Northeast Utilities.
It seems that NU just can’t get [...]

Video: Newspaper columnist kicked out of electric co-op meeting

Every newspaperman or woman should get tossed out of a meeting every so often just to keep the instincts sharp!

Amish Fireplaces, Get The Costco Model, Save $$$

Despite everything negative having been written about the “Amish mantle and miracle invention,” if you want to buy one just like it and spend less than $200, including tax – GO TO COSTCO.
Yes, that is right, the Costco model was not made by the “Amish” and Chinese. But its much cheaper and Costco warranties all their [...]

Watchdog starts new blog site: CL&P’s mystery meters examined

My four-decade-long career at The Courant ended Friday as I was fired for doing my job – being the advocate for consumers.
My career began in June 1969 as a reporter in the Willimantic bureau and ended as the first – and likely last – investigative consumer columnist at the nation’s oldest newspaper of continuous publication.
The last [...]