Friday, July 27, 2012

Albany Update: Crews Working to Restore Power



Storm Update from Governor Andrew Cuomo

Friday, July 27 – 2:30 PM:
 
NYSEG expects to have 90% of customer outages in all of its Divisions restored tonight, with the exception of the Elmira Division. A small number of customer outages in these divisions are anticipated to extend into Saturday.

In the more severely damaged Elmira area, the NYSEG expects to have 50% of customer outages restored tonight and 75% restored Saturday night. The remaining outages are likely to extend into Sunday. In addition to the 45 National Grid crews, NYSEG has 30 crews in route from Ohio to assist in restoring electric customers in Elmira.



Friday, July 27 – 12:30 PM

Statewide there are approximately 43,000 customers without power and 502 crews are working to restore service. NYSEG has 81 line crews and 49 service crews working to restore power in Elmira. 


Central Hudson expects to have the majority of customers restored by 11:00 PM.

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