PSEG UPDATE: August 11, 2020

This afternoon Dan Eichhorn, PSEG's President and Chief Operating Officer was on the daily call.  PSEG is reporting that  all restoration will be completed by the end of business Wednesday (with the adjective hopefully).   800 additional workers have been brought in since  Monday.  Eichhorn said that the damage is much greater than early assessments.  He  said that normally when they bring 100 homes back on a line break problem, they have 1 or 2 individual homes that need repairs.  However, with this storm 7 or 8 individual homes have  required repairs. 

Some government  officials noted  they have residents with medical equipment that requires electricity and medicines that require refrigeration. The extended outage has put them at substantial risk. Many communities had power restored and lost it again. 

PSEG acknowledged that their call center, outage data and service/repair data systems are not integrating and functioning properly. There is overall dissatisfaction and frustration with being told power will be restored by a particular time that never happens.  Our Village has encountered all of these issues throughout the week. 

I am happy to report, that finally this afternoon, there were  multiple PSEG crews at Sandy Hill, Blair, Berry Hill, and Cove Woods Roads.

 Mayor Charles Goulding