Public Service Electric and Gas Company, the largest utility in New Jersey, has restored power to Newark Airport and nearby areas after equipment failure caused a partial outage, the company said Monday afternoon.

About 20,000 customers lost power and some flights out of Newark were canceled following a power failure at the utility's Bayway Switching Station in Elizabeth, while upgrades were taking place. The incident took plaice at about 2:30 p.m. EST and power was restored by 4 p.m.

"Once the outage occurred, the utility isolated the failure and restored the station through an alternate power feed," PSEG said a statement. The cause of the failure is under investigation.

Power was also cut to the nearby Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V. (BUD) plant, the Jersey Gardens Mall, and Tuscan Dairy.

PSE&G is a unit of Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PEG).

-By Naureen S. Malik, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-4210; naureen.malik@dowjones.com
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