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Five days after Tropical Storm Isaias barreled through New Jersey and knocked out power to more than 1.4 million homes and businesses, tens of thousands are still waiting for their service to be restored and some estimates have restoration times still two days away.
As of 7:30 a.m. Sunday, more than 27,000 Jersey Central Power & Light customers were without power. PSE&G had more than 11,000 outages, while Atlantic City Electric was down to approximately 350. Orange & Rockland, which serves more than 62,000 homes and businesses in Bergen, Passaic and Sussex counties reported about 3,000 outages.
Some customers are not expected to be restored until late Tuesday night - a full week after the storm hit, the power companies said.
To make matters worse, New Jersey is expected to be blasted by a heat wave beginning Monday with a temperatures in the low 90s and high humidity making it feel like the upper 90s through Wednesday.
More than 5,000 PSE&G customers in both Bergen and Essex counties are in the dark early Sunday. PSE&G officials said in a statement early Sunday that the current power outage numbers include homes and businesses hit by additional storms Thursday and Friday after Isaias.
“We have made great progress in restoring customers, and understand that is of little comfort to those still without air conditioning, lights and charged cell phones,” PSE&G COO Kim Hanemann, said in a statement. “Our entire team is committed to working around the clock until every customer gets their power back.”
Morris County remains the most problematic area for JCP&L with more than 9,000 customers still without power as of early Sunday. Morris County Freeholder Tayfun Selen ripped the utility company in a letter he distributed Saturday.
“Folks, a utility company that made over $308 million in profit (in the second quarter of 2020) needs to step up and make this right and the (Board of Pubic Utilities) should demand it if they don’t.
“CEO Charles Jones, who lives in Ohio, by the way, needs to answer for why more of those profits haven’t been invested back into infrastructure improvements in Morris County and other parts of New Jersey. If he can’t answer that question to the satisfaction of his customers — like you and me — he should resign and JCP&L should put someone in charge who is accountable.”
Selen also called for Morris County residents to get receive a refund for July and August.
A JCP&L spokesman couldn’t immediately be reached for comment about Selen’s remarks though JCP&L tweeted Saturday, “crews have replaced 140,000-plus feet of wire & 100s of poles and crossarms and worked through 40-plus road closures. Crews will be addressing many localized issues and restoring individual customers. This is the most time-consuming, labor intensive and complex part of service restoration.”
JCP&L is a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp, in Akron, Ohio.
Jeff Goldman may be reached at jeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @JeffSGoldman. Find NJ.com on Facebook.
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