Posted on 01/12/2018 4:21:38 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
UPDATE: Power restored for many, but some still wait
Tens of thousands of homes and businesses across the state are without power Friday due to a combination of issues at a substation and switching stations for two of the state's major utility companies, officials said.
The overall outages for PSE&G and JCP&L customers hit 50,000 customers by 11 a.m. The problem areas and numbers have changed rapidly through morning since the outages began around 5:30 a.m.
Union County was bearing the brunt of the outages at 11 a.m. with 21,000 PSE&G customers without electricity due to what a spokeswoman called weather-related damage to circuits at switching stations. In all, the state's largest utility company has around 40,000 affected customers.
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All these yo-yo’s that think solar & wind is better than coal and nuclear.
Guess they really do get to freeze in the dark.
A lot more money needs to be invested in infrastructure.
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