The Hartford Electric Utility continues to make a difference.

City of Hartford's Director of Utilities Brian Rhodes.  

"We do a variety of different work, whether it's maintaining street lights or installing services. All the way up to installing new underground facilties in a subdivision. We do a lot of maintenance work on our system, whether it's in our substation or on our distribution line. Probably the bulk of what our customers see us doing is overhead rebuilds. That's something they drive by every day. Our rebuilds take quite a bit of time. They usually take around three to six months. We take a lot of pride in doing all of that work on our own without having to hire a contractor."    

Rhodes told WTKM that the engineering side and design side is done in house.

An example is a project from last year, behind the Mineshaft in downtown Hartford. On Jackson and Mill Street, they converted that project from an overhead system to an underground system. It was part of the City of Hartford's storm sewer improvement project.