Thursday, September 29, 2011
One month after it was hammered by customers over its hurricane response, the power authority said it's increasing how much customers will pay for power.
The Long Island Power Authority said higher fuel costs are forcing it to install a 2 percent rate hike starting in October. The charge isn't much. The average customer will pay about $3 more per month. But the announcement came only one month after Hurricane Irene knocked many Long Island residents off-line for a week. Power-starved customers were infuriated by their inability to reach LIPA, which tried to communicate with customers through Twitter. The response on the social media site wasn't always friendly. In fact, it was far from it. LIPA said the latest increase does not take into account the $176 million it cost to restore service in the wake of Hurricane Irene. Some good news: The federal government is expected to reimburse LIPA …
Monday, September 12, 2011
Experts will visit the peninsula on Tuesday.
Damage survey teams from the Long Island Power Authority will be in Port Washington on Tuesday, according to NorthShoreAlert, a mass communication system for the peninsula. NorthShoreAlert reports that rain or shine, LIPA teams will be in yards across the community to "conduct a comprehensive inspection" of their wiring and to "identify conditions that occurred during the storm that did not cause an outage however, if left unattended may cause an outage or a safety hazard to the community." The teams will continue this work Wednesday, if necessary.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Much of Barkers Point Road still without power.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Power was restored to most of Sands Point, according to NorthShoreAlert, a mass communication system for the peninsula. To sign up for messages, visit NorthShoreAlert.com. NorthShoreAlert reported that according to Long Island Power Authority, most of Sands Point was restored Tuesday with the northern-most areas coming back on line by approximately 8:20 p.m. However, much of Barker's Point is still without power. NorthShoreAlert reported that "the line crews ran into more challenges than expected today with more breaks and more trees limbs resting on wires than they had expected." Crews also encountered new falling trees. Power is expected to return to Barker's Point section by Wednesday, if all goes as expected. According to …
Monday, August 29, 2011
LIPA's Michael Hervey: Nearly 400,000 still without electricity on Long Island.
The Long Island Power Authority says it expects 95 percent of customers to have power restored by the end of the week, as nearly 400,000 remained in the dark on Monday. "Based on initial estimates, we expect that most of the large area outages will have power restored by Friday with some lingering localized small outages going into the weekend or early next week," LIPA Chief Operating Officer Michael Hervey said at a press briefing in Hicksville. The utility revised the total number of those who lost power as a result of Hurricane Irene upward to 523,000 customers and said about 24 percent -- or 125,000 -- have their power back. That leaves about 398,000 irked customers without power as of Monday morning, and Hervey hopes most of them will…
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Use electricity wisely in the heat.
Port Washington is no stranger to the occasional power outage. So it's worth noting that while the forecast calls for hot and hazy temperatures exceeding 90 degrees, the Long Island Power Authority offers tips to cool your home while conserving energy and avoiding spiking bills. “LIPA has enough capacity available to meet the projected peak demand for the forecasted hot and humid stretch, which is expected to average about 5300 MW over the next three days," said LIPA Chief Operating Officer Michael D. Hervey said. “Given LIPA's on- and off-island resources along with significant investments in our transmission and distribution system, LIPA is in good shape to meet the electrical demands during this heat storm,” said Hervey. “However, we …
Monday, March 15, 2010
Only small number of Port Washington residents are still effected by aftermath of Saturday's storm.
Port Washington is almost in the clear after this weekend's storm, which left hundreds of residents without power and many roads blocked off due to fallen trees and power lines. As of 5 p.m., of the close to 1,000 Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) customers in the Town of North Hempstead still without power, just 105 are from Port Washington, Manorhaven or Sands Point. No outages are currently being reported in Baxter Estates or Port Washington North. LIPA along with the Port Washington fire and police departments as well as Nassau County Police are working together to fix the remaining power outages. "This has been the biggest impact to our North Hempstead system since 1992," said a LIPA representative during a conference call on Monday …
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Mark Wilson
8:37 am on Saturday, October 8, 2011
Tax Payers are at the mercy of a public authority, that was set up to be looted by politicians and political appointees. ANOTHER personal ATM Machine of Tax Payer Dollars ! When it comes to MONEY, THIS is where "bipartisanship" is genuine between Pols ! more ›