WPCNR THE POWER NEWS. November 12, 2012:
Con Edison almost made its self-imposed target for restoring all of its Westchester customers yesterday. As of Monday morning 155 customers were still unconnected, and 41 of them were in White Plains.
Alan Drury, spokesperson for Con Edison, responded to Town Supervisor of Greenburgh, Paul Feiner’s suggestions on Con Edision restoration efforts,(See “Feiner Lights Into Con Ed,” noting,
– We have had crews working around the clock to restore power to customers affected by Hurricane Sandy, the largest storm in company history, and this week’s Nor’easter.
– We are using retirees to help us with the restoration.
– We are holding a daily conference call with municipal and state officials to update them on progress.
– Customers who are on what we call Life Sustaining Equipment can register with us and we will call them to notify them of outages, voltage reductions and other events. We will also have a rep call them to check on them and see whether they need us to call 911 for them.
– We have restored service to 1 million customers since Hurricane Sandy struck. The previous most destructive storm in Con Edison history was Hurricane Irene, which knocked about 204,000 customers out of service. We have restored five times that many customers since Hurricane Sandy struck.
The remaining are scheduled to be connected today. The numbers:
