More Than 580,000 Still Without Power On East Coast After Irene
September 02 2011 - 2:22PM
Dow Jones News
About 580,200 customers in 10 East Coast states were still
without electricity Friday, down from 6.7 million at the height of
Hurricane Irene, the U.S. Department of Energy reported.
Tens of thousands of utility line workers, many of whom had
traveled from out of state to help, continued the cleanup and
power-restoration effort.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of utility customers in
Connecticut, New York and Virginia were still in the dark.
In Connecticut, about 172,800 were without power, or about 11%
of the state's total customer base, down from about 702,000 during
the storm, the DOE reported. About 146,600 customers of Northeast
Utilities' (NU) Connecticut Light & Power were without
electricity, about 11% of the total customer base.
In New York, about 132,500 customers lacked power service, down
from nearly 942,000 during and after the storm, the DOE reported.
Most of them, about 78,100, are served by the Long Island Power
Authority. In New York City and Westchester County, about 1,600
customers of Consolidated Edison Inc. (ED) were still without power
Friday.
In New Jersey, about 45,600 customers were still without power.
Most of them, some 40,000, were in FirstEnergy Corp.'s (FE) Jersey
Central Power & Light territory. FirstEnergy said it expects
power to be restored to the majority of those customers by midnight
Friday. Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.'s (PEG) PSE&G said
that fewer than 2,500 customers were without electricity.
In Virginia, about 102,100 customers were still in the dark,
down from more than 900,000 during the storm, according to the
DOE.
Dominion Resources Inc. (D) said that about 104,100 of its
Virginia and North Carolina customers were still without
electricity, with more than three-quarters of them in the Richmond
area. Richmond and other inland areas were hit by several hours of
high winds that knocked down trees and branches, toppling hundreds
of utility poles and power lines.
In Massachusetts, fewer than 30,900 utility customers still
lacked power service, the DOE said. National Grid PLC (NGG, NG.LN)
said about 20,300 of its Massachusetts customers were without
power, while NStar (NST) said 3,700 of its customers were still in
the dark.
In Maryland, about 40,400 were still without power, with about
31,100 of them in the Baltimore area, served by Constellation
Energy Group Inc.'s (CEG) Baltimore Gas and Electric.
In Rhode Island, about 33,300 were still without power, about 8%
of the state's total customer base, with about 27,300 of them in
National Grid's service territory.
In Vermont, Central Vermont Public Service Corp. (CV) said less
than 1,200 of its customers were without service. The remaining
outages were in Windsor, Windham and Orange counties, where sudden,
high water levels in streams and rivers caused flooding and
widespread damage.
-By Cassandra Sweet, Dow Jones Newswires; 415-439-6468;
cassandra.sweet@dowjones.com
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