Type: Public
On the web: http://www.nu.com
Employees: 6,182
Employee growth: 1.7%

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 more than 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 about 35,000 pole miles of distribution lines. NU's Yankee Gas utility provides natural gas to 200,000 customers in Connecticut. In 2010 the company offered to buy regional rival NSTAR for $4.2 billion.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2010:
Sales: $4,898.2M
One year growth: (10.0%)
Net income: $387.9M
Income growth: 15.6%

Officers:
Chairman, President, and CEO: Charles W. (Chuck) Shivery
EVP and COO; CEO, CL&P, PSNH, WMECO and Yankee Gas: Leon J. (Lee) Olivier
EVP and CFO: David R. McHale

Competitors:
Iberdrola USA
National Grid USA
NiSource

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