Con Edison On Hot Seat for Extended Power Outages

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Con Ed's North Queens substation supplies the Long Island City network through 22 primary feeders totaling nearly 300 miles in length and 1,200 network transformers. They supply electricity in an extensive system of 4,400 manholes, 11,000 service boxes, and 1,700 miles of secondary wire, all of which combine to deliver power to approximately 115,000 customers.

Regarding the question on everyone's minds-why did the power fail and why it is taking so long to restore it-[Chris Olert] said the company has yet determine the cause, but "is analyzing its equipment to assess why several of our feeders/circuits failed."

"Once again, New Yorkers have shown what they're made of and their resilience,'' [Michael Bloomberg] told the AP. "Everybody is sad that it happened, but I think we've come out of this as well as we could have and from now on, we'll find out what happened and do what we can to prevent it."

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Con Edison On Hot Seat for Extended Power Outages

As of late Tuesday, over a thousand of the roughly 25,000 customers in northwest Queens literally remained in the dark from extended power outages, a...

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