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 […]
About 2,100 Rochester Gas and Electric customers lost power when thunderstorms swept across the region early this morning. The largest group of them were in Henrietta, where some 1,100 outages were reported. Other large outages were in Penfield, Irondequoit and Gates. RG&E says it had all but a couple of hundred reconnected by 7:00 a.m. […]
Even though a deal has been reached with the state to keep the Ginna Nuclear Power Plant running, Rochester Gas and Electric says it’s getting ready just in case the plant’s owners decide to shut it down in the future. To do that, RG&E says it’s going to have to dig up streets in and […]