Northeast Utilities · Berlin, CT United States ·(NYSE: NU)

Northeast Utilities (NU) uses a little Yankee ingenuity (and a number of power generation plants) to keep its customers powered up. The largest utility in New England, NU supplies power to about 1.9 million customers in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts through subsidiaries Connecticut Light and Power, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, and Western Massachusetts Electric. The company's power grid encompasses about 3,100 circuit miles of overhead transmission lines and approximately 34,900 pole miles of distribution lines. NU's Yankee Gas utility provides natural gas to 200,000 customers in Connecticut. To read the full description, subscribe now.