Sunday, February 24, 2013
The power outages occurred just after midnight Saturday and lasted until about 4 p.m. Sunday.
Hundreds of Fair Lawn residents lost power for up to 16 hours Sunday as a result of blown transformers, police said. Public Service could not be reached for comment, but the utility's online outage maps estimated that between 501 and 2,000 customers throughout the borough were in the dark from just after midnight Saturday until mid-afternoon Sunday. The borough was restored to full power just after 4 p.m. Lt. Bob Kneer said multiple transformer fires were to blame for the outages, including one at the corner of Lyncrest Avenue and Willow Street, but could not say what parts of town had been affected. -- Follow Fair Lawn-Saddle Brook Patch on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to receive our daily newsletter in your inbox each morning
Monday, October 29, 2012
Hurricane force wind gusts have had a major impact in Fair Lawn, but flooding has been minimal.
Hurricane force winds and pounding rains have ripped trees from the earth, gnarled power lines and blown transformers, sending sparks shooting into the night sky and leaving thousands without power in Fair Lawn Monday evening. "We're getting hammered right now," said Lt. Derek Bastinck, who noted the department has been hit with a barrage of calls for transformer explosions, live wires down and trees crashing into homes over the past few hours. By 9:15 p.m., the emergency operations center had taken 40 calls for downed trees, 17 for downed wires and 14 for fire alarms. The Fair Lawn Rescue Squad has performed nearly three-dozen rescues of residents whose homes were damaged by trees or whose basements were flooded, borough manager Tom …
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Daisuke Ayame, 42, was charged with driving while intoxicated after he lost control of his vehicle and drove into a utility pole on Saddle River Road, police said.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
A Glen Rock man was charged with driving while intoxicated early Saturday morning after his car jumped a curb on Saddle River Road and struck a utility pole, police said. Daisuke Ayame, 42, sustained no injuries in the single-car crash that occurred just after midnight in front of Congregation Ahavat Achim, at the corner of Saddle River Road and Kramer Place, police said. The car's impact split the utility pole at its base, causing it to lean precariously. A Public Service employee who came to inspect the scene said the fractured pole would need to be replaced. He said he didn't expect any of the neighboring buildings, except perhaps the synagogue, to have their power affected during the new pole's installation, which should be complete …
Monday, September 17, 2012
Consultant tells BPU the steps utilities should take to restore power to customers far faster
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Monday, September 17, 2012
By Tom Johnson, NJ Spotlight Warning that extreme weather is here to stay, state regulatory officials last week began weighing steps that New Jersey electric utilities should take to improve response times when restoring power to customers. At a hearing in the Statehouse Annex, the Board of Public Utilities heard a consultant retained by the agency detail some of the 143 recommendations made to deal with future major storms. Two unprecedented storms in 2011, which left nearly 3 million electric customers without power, triggered the investigation. Hurricane Irene landed in late August, leaving 1.9 million customers without power, the largest number of outages in New Jersey's history. The second, a rare snowstorm two days before Halloween, …
Monday, September 10, 2012
Utilities face fines of $2 million or more for leaving customers in the dark
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Monday, September 10, 2012
By Tom Johnson, NJ Spotlight The state’s four electric utilities would face stiffer penalties if they fail to quickly implement restoration plans in the event of severe storms, according to a recommendation introduced by the Christie administration. The governor wants the Legislature to move rapidly on the proposal, enacting it into law this fall. The proposal reflects somewhat a Democratic initiative introduced by Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula (D-Somerset), chairman of the Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee this past May, although the governor’s initiative would impose larger fines. Under the proposal outlined by Gov. Chris Christie, penalties would rise from $100 per day under the current law to $25,000, with a maximum …
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
For New Jersey employers finding it difficult to fill job openeings, a new internet job site, OnRamp, matches skilled employees to interested employers -- and there's no fee.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
By Tom Johnson, NJ Spotlight Even in a state where the unemployment rate hovers above 9 percent, many employers in New Jersey are finding a difficult time finding the right person to fill a job opening. Take PSEG, for example, one of the state’s biggest employers, with more than 10,000 workers. When the owner of the state’s largest utility, Public Service Electric & Gas, tracked down how many openings it had, it found it needed to fill 111 positions. “These are really good jobs,’’ said Ralph Izzo, president and CEO of PSEG, ranging from lawyers, accountants, energy traders, and engineers to skilled craft positions, like auto mechanics, electricians, and pipefitters. Hoping to answer the company’s needs and that of thousands of other …
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Utility seeks approval for $883M investment to increase solar capacity in New Jersey
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
By Tom Johnson, NJ Spotlight Public Service Electric & Gas is hoping to remain a big player in helping New Jersey achieve its ambitious solar energy goals. In a groundbreaking for a new solar farm at a brownfield next to the Hackensack River, the company announced Tuesday it wants to invest $883 million over the next five years to build an additional 233 megawatts (mw) of solar capacity in New Jersey. The event in Hackensack meshed well with a top priority of the Christie administration -- trying to reclaim abandoned industrial properties and landfills and converting them into facilities producing clean solar power to help meet the state’s electricity needs and creating well-paying jobs in the process. PSE&G, the state’s largest utility …
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Scam promises to pay or credit utility bills.
A new scam using President Barack Obama’s name claims to provide utility bill credits in exchange for personal information, including social security numbers, according to Public Service Electric and Gas. “The scam, which has been reported in a number of states, claims that President Barack Obama is providing credits or applying payments to utility bills,” the company said in a statement. PSE&G offered the following details on how the scam works: • Someone calls a utility customer and tells them that the federal government has a program to pay utility bills on a one-time basis. • Customers are asked to provide their social security numbers to apply for the program. • The scammers then give customers a phony federal reserve bank routing …
Monday, June 4, 2012
In annual filings with the state BPU, utilities say customers could see savings of up to 5.2 percent
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Monday, June 4, 2012
By Tom Johnson, NJ Spotlight Once again, this winter is shaping up to be a season where natural gas customers can expect to pay less or about the same to heat their homes. In annual filings with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, the state’s four gas utilities proposed cutting rates by as much as 5.2 percent beginning in October, the latest in a series of declines that have saved some customers as much as $674 since January 2009. The steep drop in natural gas prices has been spurred by increased production of natural gas in neighboring Pennsylvania and other areas, largely a result of the discovery of new supplies of the fuel in the Marcellus Shale formation in the Keystone state and elsewhere. With gas supplies plentiful and the …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
This year Fair Lawn is purchasing both electricity and natural gas through an energy collective.
Fair Lawn has saved more than $20,000 through the first quarter of the year by purchasing its electric supply collectively through the New Jersey Sustainable Energy Joint Meeting (NJSEM). The figure represents a nearly 20 percent savings from what the borough would have paid had it purchased energy independently from PSE&G. While the borough's energy is still provided by PSE&G, it's purchased collectively at a reduced rate through NJSEM, a group of approximately 160 other New Jersey municipalities and authorities. This is the second year the borough has purchased electricity through NSEM. Pleased with the savings it reaped last year, the council agreed in January to enter into a one-year contract with the NJSEM for natural gas purchases as…
Steven Byer
12:01 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
I lost it for a few seconds Saturday night. Dish went down and rebooted immediately. Like many others, I was wondering what happened more ›