Con Edison Restores Power to Parts of Brooklyn During Heat Wave
22 July 2019 - 9:43PM
Dow Jones News
By James Fanelli
Consolidated Edison Inc. said Monday that it had restored power
to half of its 33,000 customers in southeast Brooklyn who had
suffered an outage during one of the hottest nights of the
summer.
The utility, which powers most of New York City, said at 8:30
p.m. Sunday that it shut off power to the 33,000 customers due to
high usage during a heat wave in which temperatures hovered near
triple digits for days.
As of 10:20 p.m. Sunday, a total of 52,289 customers in the
city, Yonkers and Westchester County were experiencing outages,
according to Con Edison. The number was down to 19,919 by 6 a.m.
Monday.
Con Edison said Monday that its crews had been in affected area
since Sunday night and were repairing equipment. New York City
Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was pushing the utility to get power
back as fast as possible.
"It's still hot and people have a right to be frustrated," Mr.
de Blasio, a Democrat, said on Twitter early Monday morning.
He said Con Edison had taken parts of Brooklyn out of service on
Sunday night to prevent a bigger outage and to make repairs to
failing equipment. About 8,000 Con Edison customers in Jamaica,
Queens, were also without power, the mayor said.
New York Police Department officers were deployed Sunday night
to neighborhoods in southeast Brooklyn to keep residents safe and
to respond to any emergency, according to Mr. de Blasio.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday night that he was
deploying 200 state troopers, 100 generators and 50 light towers in
the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Canarsie, Mill Basin, Bergen Beach,
Georgetown and Flatlands.
The governor and Mr. de Blasio had both already ordered
investigations into a massive blackout that hit the West Side of
Manhattan on July13. That outage, which affected more than 72,000
customers, took five hours to fully fix. A faulty 13,000-volt cable
on Manhattan's Upper West Side caused the blackout.
Mr. Cuomo said Sunday night that he had directed the State
Department of Public Service to expand its investigation to include
the Brooklyn outages as well.
"We have been through this situation with Con Ed time and again,
and they should have been better prepared -- period," Gov. Cuomo
said. "This was not a natural disaster; there is no excuse for what
has happened in Brooklyn."
New York has been in the midst of a heat wave over the last few
days, prompting the city to open cooling stations and extend pool
and beach hours. Temperatures are expected to drop into the 80s on
Monday.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 22, 2019 07:28 ET (11:28 GMT)
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