CT SB00937

Public Utilities Regulatory Authority must initiate a proceeding by October 1, 2021 to develop a deployment process for make-safe crews (downed electric wire clearance) that establishes crew composition, circumstances for deployment to municipalities, and minimum crew numbers based on roads, population, and critical infrastructure.

Each electric distribution company must develop an emergency response plan by January 1, 2022 demonstrating capacity to increase field workforce by 500 percent during emergencies, ability to respond to Category 3 hurricanes, and provide municipalities with damage assessments, circuit damage information, and geographic information systems outage data within 120 minutes of opening an emergency operations center.

Each electric distribution company must establish a liaison program by January 1, 2022 with dedicated liaisons assigned to each municipality, including training requirements, mandatory deployment during make-safe operations, and responsibility to provide power restoration timeframes to municipalities.

Community antenna television companies and certified competitive video service providers must remove all associated wires from residential or commercial properties and public utility poles within 30 days after a customer terminates service.

All provisions take effect July 1, 2021.