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Distribution Business: A summary of distribution capital expenditures by company for 2012, 2011 and 2010 is as follows:
For the Year Ended December 31,
(Millions of Dollars)
2012 (1)
2011
2010
CL&P:
Basic Business
$
69.2
$
166.6
$
126.2
Aging Infrastructure
177.8
112.3
104.0
Load Growth
65.8
59.6
75.2
Total CL&P
312.8
338.5
305.4
NSTAR Electric:
Basic Business
47.3
N/A
N/A
Aging Infrastructure
111.5
N/A
N/A
Load Growth
17.4
N/A
N/A
Total NSTAR Electric
176.2
N/A
N/A
PSNH:
Basic Business
25.3
47.7
41.2
Aging Infrastructure
50.2
25.3
19.5
Load Growth
20.2
25.8
23.1
Total PSNH
95.7
98.8
83.8
WMECO:
Basic Business
12.7
24.2
17.5
Aging Infrastructure
18.5
11.5
10.5
Load Growth
6.5
6.1
5.1
Total WMECO
37.7
41.8
33.1
Total - Electric Distribution (excluding Generation)
622.4
479.1
422.3
Total - Natural Gas
162.9
102.8
94.6
Other Distribution
0.1
1.0
2.0
Total Electric and Natural Gas
785.4
582.9
518.9
PSNH Generation:
Clean Air Project
22.0
101.1
149.7
Other
7.9
23.7
27.4
Total PSNH Generation
29.9
124.8
177.1
WMECO Generation
0.7
11.7
10.1
Total Distribution Segment
$
816.0
$
719.4
$
706.1
(1) Distribution capital expenditures include NSTAR Electric and NSTAR Gas from the date of merger, April 10, 2012, through
December 31, 2012.
For the electric distribution business, basic business includes the relocation of plant, the purchase of meters, tools, vehicles, information
technology, transformer replacements, and equipment facilities. Aging infrastructure relates to reliability and the replacement of
overhead lines, plant substations, underground cable replacement, and equipment failures. Load growth includes requests for new
business and capacity additions on distribution lines and substation overloads.
Clean Air Project: In June 2012, PSNH placed into service the last major elements of the Clean Air Project at Merrimack Station, a
$421 million project that is utilizing wet scrubber technology to significantly reduce mercury and sulfur emissions from the station’s two
coal units. The scrubber has been operating since the end of September 2011 and has reduced mercury and sulfur emissions by more
than 95 percent.
CL&P System Resiliency Plan: On January 16, 2013, PURA approved the $300 million plan CL&P filed to improve the resiliency of its
electric distribution system. Consistent with the terms of the Connecticut settlement agreement, the plan includes vegetation
management (both enhanced tree trimming and trimming on a shorter cycle), structural hardening (strengthening field structures
through upgrades to the current structure design and material standards as well as upgrades to the poles and conductors), and
electrical hardening (upgrading electrical distribution conductors and protective devices on overhead circuits). CL&P expects to
complete the plan in five years in two separate phases. Phase 1 of the plan, which will be primarily focused on vegetation
management, is estimated to cost $32 million in 2013 and $53 million in 2014. Phase 2 of the plan is estimated to cost the remaining
$215 million over the period from 2015 through 2017.