2025 News Articles

HG&E Continues Evaluation of Residential Fiber
March 07, 2025
In 2021, HG&E completed an interest campaign that was designed to better understand customer demand for municipal fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband service. While HG&E is interested in providing FTTH service and is currently providing residential broadband service within Holyoke on a very limited basis, there must be sufficient demand for the service for a city-wide venture to make economic sense and not have an adverse effect on utility rates.