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Feb 24, 2009 9:42 am US/Eastern

Unitil Admits Being Overhwhelmed By Ice Storm

BOSTON (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: The Dec. 11-12 ice storm downed power lines throughout central and western Massachusetts.
Carol Hopkins

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Electric utility Unitil says in a report to state energy regulators that it was overwhelmed by a December ice storm that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts residents.

Read: The Unitil Report (.pdf)

In the report filed with the Department of Public Utilities on Monday, Unitil, which provides service to Ashby, Fitchburg, Lunenburg and Townsend as Fitchburg Gas & Electric Light Co., says it had to restore four years worth of infrastructure in two weeks following the Dec. 11-12 storm.

Some customers were without power for almost two weeks.

Unitil said it usually relies on help from other utilities, but the unprecedented nature of the storm made it difficult to find enough workers.

The company says it was proud of its response, but identified areas for improvement.