SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                        Washington, D.C. 20549
                              FORM U-6B-2
                     Certificate of Notification
                                  of
              The Connecticut Light and Power Company

            with respect to Issuance of Debt Securities


           Certificate is filed by:  The Connecticut Light
                 and Power Company (the "Company").

      This certificate is notice that the above-named company has
issued, renewed or guaranteed the security or securities described
herein which issue, renewal or guaranty was exempted from the provisions
of Section 6(a) of the Act and was neither the subject of a declaration
or application on Form U-1 nor included within the exemption provided
by Rule U-48.

1.    Type of the security or securities:     $100,000,000 of First and
                                              Refunding Mortgage Bonds,
                                              2005  Series A, due 2015,
                                              bearing interest at 5.000%

2.    Issue, renewal or guaranty:             Issue


3.    Principal amount of each                $100,000,000 aggregate
      security:                               principal amount

4.    Rate of interest per annum of each
      security:                               5.000%

5.    Date of issue, renewal or guaranty of
      each security:                          Issued April 7, 2005


6.    If renewal of security, give date of
      original issue:                         N/A


7.    Date of maturity of each security:      April 1, 2015


8.    Name of the person to whom each security was issued, renewed or
      guaranteed:  Public offering underwritten by Barclay's Capital
      Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BNY Capital Markets, Inc.,
      Key Banc Capital Markets and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC.

9.    Collateral given with each security,
      if any:                                 N/A

10.   Consideration received for each         $98,754,000 in the
      security:                               aggregate

11.   Application of proceeds of each security:
      To refinance short-term debt borrowings and accounts receivable
      facility drawings previously incurred or made to finance capital
      expenditures for distribution and transmission facilities
      expansion and for general corporate purposes.

12.   Indicate by a check after the applicable statement below whether
      the issue, renewal or guaranty of each security was exempt from
      the provisions of Section 6(a) because of:

      a.    the provisions contained in the first sentence of Section
            6(b):

      b.    the provisions contained in the fourth sentence of Section
            6(b):

      c.    the provisions contained in any rule of the Commission other
            than Rule U-48:     X

13.   If the security or securities were exempt from the provisions of
      Section 6(a) by virtue of the first sentence of Section 6(b), give
      the figures which indicate that the security or securities
      aggregate (together with  all other than outstanding notes and
      drafts of a maturity of nine months or less, exclusive of days of
      grace, as to which such company is primarily or secondarily
      liable) not more than 5 per centum of the principal amount and par
      value of the other securities of such company then outstanding.
      (Demand notes, regardless of how long they may have been
      outstanding, shall be considered as maturing in not more than nine
      months  for purposes of  the exemption from Section 6(a)
      of the Act granted by the first sentence of Section 6(b)).  N/A

14.   If the security or securities are exempt from the provisions of
      Section 6(a) because of the fourth sentence of Section 6(b), name
      the security outstanding on January 1, 1935, pursuant to the terms
      of which the security or securities herein described have been
      issued:       N/A


15.   If the security or securities are exempt from the provisions of
      Section 6(a) because of any rule of the Commission other than
      Rule U-48, designate the rule under which exemption is claimed:

                              Rule 52

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                                  THE CONNECTICUT LIGHT AND
                                  POWER COMPANY



                                  By  /s/ Randy A. Shoop
                                      Randy A. Shoop
                                      Vice President and Treasurer
Date: April 15, 2005