RG&E and NYSEG have been ordered by state regulators to invest nearly $4 million into improving their response to a major power outage. This comes after the State’s Department of Public Service found fault with both companies’ response to the March, 2017 wind storm. That storm took out power to some 170,000 people. The state […]
The windstorm that rolled in following last night’s rain could have been worse, but it’s been bad enough to knock out power to some 32,000 Rochester Gas and Electric and NYSEG customers across the region. All but a few hundred of those outages were made good during the day on Monday. Parent company Avangrid says […]
Rochester Gas and Electric has restored two-thirds of the power outages caused by yesterday afternoon’s sudden thunderstorms and high winds. It’s now about 8,000 customers out across the Rochester region, down from 24,000 at the worst. The fast-moving cold front caused a wind gust of 63 miles per hour at the Rochester airport and […]