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Tens of thousands of customers remain without power in New York a week after Tropical Storm Isaias tracked down the Northeast Polder, prompting Gov. Andrew Cuomo to revoke state operating licenses for two utilities.
In a briefing on Monday, Cuomo said he had commissioned the Public Services Commission to conduct an investigation into utilities ConEdison and PSEG Long Island.
“ConEd and PSE & G did a lousy job,” Cuomo said. “That’s a technical term – lousy job. They were not prepared, and they did not anticipate what it would take to get back online quickly.”
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According to power-outage tracking site poweroutage.us, some 11,614 Con Edison and 32,253 PSEG Long Island customers were still without power Tuesday morning.
The greater New York area is under hot advice until Wednesday, with temperatures forecast to sail into the 1990s.
Andrew Cuomo, New York, said Monday he was “personally disappointed” in the utilities, and that New Yorkers are “enough” with them. (AP photo / Mark Lennihan, file)
Cuomo said he was “personally disappointed” in the utilities, and that New Yorkers are “tired” of them.
The ongoing investigation by the PSC could result in fines, penalties, restitution, or worse, according to the governor.
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“I want the utilities to know that we are not sticking to the concept in New York that everything is too big to fail,” Cuomo said, threatening that their “franchise could be withdrawn.”
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“I do not bluff,” he said. ‘If you do not serve the people of this state, they will give you a license to provide a service. If you do not provide the service, they will revoke the license and the license is your franchise. ”
A fallen utility pole and trees lie across the street in Yonkers, followed by high winds brought by tropical storm Isaias, Tuesday, August 4, 2020 in New York. (AP Photo / Luke Sheridan)
Long Island Nassau County officials are demanding that PSEG reimburse Long Island customers for their power issues, including refunds for bills and reimbursement for food and medication that had to be thrown away.
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“We are calling on PSEG Long Island to help at the moment, to alleviate some of the wrongdoing caused by its bot and moderate storm response,” County Executive Laura Curran told CBS New York. “This is essential – this compensation for the more than 140,000 customers who were left without electricity for more than 24 hours.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio talks to residents about damage caused by Tropical Storm Isaias, Tuesday, August 4, 2020, in New York’s Queens neighborhood. (AP Photo / Frank Franklin II)
Con Ed said Monday that “crews close at the end of the restoration of customers affected by Storm Isaias,” including in Westchester County.
The utility company said Tropical Storm Isaias caused it to be one of the largest outages in the company’s history.
Con Ed spokesman Robert McGee told the New York Post that the utility “is fully focused on restoring power as safely and quickly as possible for any customer.”
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“After each major event, we will carry out an in-depth analysis of what can be improved and we will do the same after the second worst storm in the history of our opposing region,” he said.
Technicians are working to restore power by repairing downed powerlines on Flagler Street in Morristown, NJ after Tropical Storm Isaiah continued on Wednesday, August 5, 2020. (John Jones / NJ Advance Media via AP)
PSEG Long Island said full restoration to identified customers is expected to be completed by the end of the day Wednesday.
“The restoration process is iterative and while we restore weeks, we continue to identify a high level of individual problems within weeks and individual service lines to homes,” the company said late Monday.
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