Electricity Restored To Nearly All County Residents Following Hurricane Ida

Orange & Rockland’s plans to complete storm damage repairs and restore electric service was successful Thursday, restoring up to 95% of its approximately 17,000 customers whose power was knocked out by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida that slammed the region.

On Thursday, O&R reported that it had already returned electric service to 15,500 of the 17,000 of its customers who temporarily lost power in the destructive storm. More overhead line contractor technicians obtained by O&R Thursday supplemented these restoration efforts. Those additional workers increase O&R’s field forces by 50 percent, according to O&R.

O&R provides electric service to approximately 300,000 customers in southeastern New York State (where its franchise name is Orange & Rockland) and northern New Jersey (where it’s Rockland Electric Company) and natural gas service to approximately 130,000 customers in New York.

O&R serves all of Rockland, and parts of Orange and Sullivan counties in New York and, through its wholly owned subsidiary Rockland Electric Company, O&R serves parts of Bergen, Passaic and Sussex counties in New Jersey. The part of Sussex County, N.J., which is served by O&R’s Rockland Electric Company, experienced no power outages Wednesday or Thursday.