Sunday, April 7, 2013
J. Fletcher Creamer & Son and Public Service will begin performing underground utility work along Chandler Drive this week that will affect traffic flow and parking for the next 30 days.
A month-long construction project that begins this week will disrupt traffic and parking along apartment-lined Chandler Drive and adjacent streets until early May. J. Fletcher Creamer & Son and Public Service will begin installing underground power lines along Chandler Drive Monday and have advised motorists that sections of Chandler Drive, Carlton Place, Calyne Drive and Chadwick Place will be closed to automotive traffic over the next 30 days. J. Fletcher Creamer & Son will set up detours to help motorists exit the development, sending them to either Fair Lawn Avenue or Pollitt Drive, according to a company release. During the construction period, parking in certain areas will be restricted from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. A “No Parking” sign will …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The utility disputes a claim that projects will substantially increase bills for residential and industrial customers.
Public Service Electric & Gas is facing mounting opposition to its plan to spend nearly $4 billion to harden its power grid to prevent widespread outages during major storms. In a letter sent late yesterday afternoon to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, five of the state’s most prominent lobbying organizations urged the agency to reject out of hand or delay indefinitely PSE&G’s proposal, submitted to the agency in February. They said it would spike utility bills for both residential and industrial customers. Do you support PSE&G's plan? Vote below in a Patch readers' poll and make your voice heard. The concerns raised by the groups underscore how difficult it will be for the agency and the state’s utilities to undertake what …
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, 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, …
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 …
Friday, February 10, 2012
A shorter timeframe for power auctions and more in-state capacity could have made a bigger difference
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Friday, February 10, 2012
By Tom Johnson, NJ Spotlight Most consumers may see a dip in their electric bills this June, but the drop is likely to ignite a recurring debate over whether the decline could have been much greater. For the fourth consecutive year, residential customers will see bills decrease by as much as $6.96 each month for customers of Jersey Central Power & Light to as little as $1.37 a month for those served by Rockland Electric. They can thank a steep drop in natural gas prices for the savings. But larger commercial and industrial customers, who use the bulk of electricity in New Jersey, saw the price they pay for power purchased in an annual auction run by the state increase by 7 percent. Since the auction price makes up only a small part of …
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Craig Road, which had been closed for almost two weeks following the destructive late October snowstorm, has re-opened
Craig Road, which had been cordoned off with tape since the Oct. 29 snowstorm almost two weeks ago, re-opened Thursday morning, assistant borough manager Jim Van Kruiningen said. Van Kruiningen said he believed it was the last road in Fair Lawn that had still been closed following the storm, which brought down a record number of tree branches and caused widespread power outages that affected up to half of town. Craig Road remained closed for as long as it did because a telephone pole on the side of the street broke at its base and was leaning precariously out into the road, Public Works Supervisor Ron Conte said. Conte said the pole was stable enough not to cause an imminent threat to the residents living on the street, but that it needed …
The Baron
6:45 pm on Monday, April 8, 2013
Sorry, the water line break was on MORLOT AVE. :( more ›