Of 1,400 system programs 900 are currently compliant, he reports. Plans are in place to shed extra electrical load that could result from outages across the state. Granquist told us that the DPUC project has not been monitoring municipal generators like those run by South Norwalk Electric Works. The larger problems, he says, are in areas like accounts receivable and billing. United Illuminating did not return phonecalls for this article.
Phones are the next, last link to the outside world.
If we can't have any power, at least we need to have someone to call to complain about it. You'd figure that in an information crisis of this proportion, the people who provide the information will certainly get hit. You can't get any calls. This includes your cell phone. 911 isn't getting any calls either, disrupting emergency response time.