LIPA Continues to Makes Storm Restorations

Hicksville – The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) called out extra repair crews in response to today’s Nor’easter that has hit the region with heavy rains and high winds and wind gusts. LIPA will continue to make storm-related service restorations throughout the evening and overnight.

Since mid-night, about 7,563 LIPA customers have experienced a service disruption as a result of the storm. So far, 5,346 customers have been returned to service, and 2,159 are being worked on. The peak number of customers out at any one time occurred at 3 PM today when some 3,058 customers were without service.

Over 186 repairs jobs have been completed by some 516 field and supervisory personnel working 16-hour shifts to replace poles, repair power lines, remove trees from downed power lines and poles, replace fuses and reset transformers.

“It’s been an ongoing effort throughout the day, but our repair personnel have been able to keep up with the restoration effort almost as they have been occurring,” said LIPA CEO and President Richard M. Kessel. “Our goal is to get everyone back as quickly as possible, and so far we’ve been able to restore service to 86% of our affected customers in two hours or less.”

LIPA Customers should call 1-800-490-0075 to report an outage.

LIPA customers are also encouraged to visit LIPA’s Storm Center on LIPA’s Web site www.lipower.org for updated weather reports, electric outage information and tips to stay prepared for weather emergencies.

LIPA, a non-profit municipal electric provider, owns the retail electric Transmission and Distribution System on Long Island and provides electric service to more than 1.1 million customers in Nassau and Suffolk counties and the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. LIPA is the 2nd largest municipal electric utility in the nation in terms of electric revenues, 3rd largest in terms of customers served and the 7th largest in terms of electricity delivered. In 2010, LIPA outperformed all other overhead electric utilities in New York State for frequency of service interruptions, and ranked second for duration of service interruptions. LIPA does not provide natural gas service or own any on-island generating assets. More information about LIPA can be found online at: http://www.lipower.org.

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