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Company Snapshot
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NSTAR, through its subsidiaries, engages in sale, distribution, and transmission of electricity and natural gas to commercial, industrial, and residential customers in Massachusetts.
The company distributes and transmits electricity at retail to an area of approximately 1,702 square miles covering Boston and 80 surrounding cities and towns, including Cambridge, New Bedford, and Plymouth, as well as the geographic area comprising Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard.
It also distributes natural gas to communities in central and eastern Massachusetts, including the Hyde Park area of Boston, Cambridge, Dedham, Framingham, New Bedford, Plymouth, Somerville, and Worcester covering an area of approximately 1,067 square miles.
In addition, the company installs, owns, operates, and maintains a wholesale transport network for other telecommunications service providers in the metropolitan Boston area to deliver voice, video, data, and Internet services.
As of December 31, 2010, its primary and secondary electrical distribution and transmission system consisted of 22,735 circuit miles of overhead lines; 13,286 circuit miles of underground lines; 257 substation facilities; and approximately 1,178,000 active customer meters, as well as its natural gas system included approximately 3,140 miles of gas distribution lines; 190,850 services; and 279,300 customer meters.
The company serves approximately 1.4 million customers in Massachusetts, including approximately 1.1 million electric distribution customers in 81 communities and approximately 300,000 natural gas distribution customers in 51 communities.
NSTAR was founded in 1886 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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