EXHIBIT 24

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


   The undersigned directors of CTG Resources, Inc., a Connecticut corporation,
   hereby appoint Victor H. Frauenhofer, Arthur C. Marquardt, James P. Bolduc,
   and Reginald L. Babcock, their true and lawful attorney, and each of them
   their true and lawful attorney, with power to act without the other and with
   full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute for the
   undersigned directors and in their names to file with the Securities and
   Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., under provisions of the Securities
   Act of 1933, as amended, one or more post-effective amendments to
   Registration Statement No. 33-54653, whether said amendments add to, delete
   from or otherwise alter such Registration Statement, or add or withdraw any
   exhibits or schedules to be filed therewith and any and all instruments in
   connection therewith.  The undersigned hereby grant to said attorneys and
   each of them full power and authority to do and perform in the name of and
   on behalf of the undersigned, and in any and all capabilities, any act and
   thing whatsoever required or necessary to be done in and about the premises,
   as fully and to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might do, hereby
   ratifying and approving the acts of said attorneys and each of them.


   IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
   executed as of the 1st day of April, 1997.


   /s/  Bessye W. Bennett               /s/   Arthur C. Marquardt
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        Bessye W. Bennett                     Arthur C. Marquardt

   /s/  James F. English, Jr.           /s/   Denis F. Mullane
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        James F. English, Jr.                 Denis F. Mullane

   /s/  Herman J. Fonteyne              /s/   Richard J. Shima
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        Herman J. Fonteyne                    Richard J. Shima

   /s/  Victor H. Frauenhofer           /s/   Laurence A. Tanner
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        Victor H. Frauenhofer                 Laurence A. Tanner

   /s/  Beverly L. Hamilton             /s/   Michael W. Tomasso
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        Beverly L. Hamilton                   Michael W. Tomasso

   /s/  Harvey S. Levenson
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        Harvey S. Levenson