Sentences with phrase «power restoration»
"Power restoration" refers to the process of bringing back electricity or power supply after it has been disrupted or lost for some reason. Full definition
This is a massive construction effort and will require new hardware shipped to the island, which is part of why power restoration will take months.
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The Edison Electric Institute said the response to Irma is «one of the largest power restoration efforts in US history.»
The Democrat says Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello requested that New York and other states send utility aid to help boost power restoration work.
Approximately 100 mutual aid line workers from the Midwest are arriving to assist in power restoration, and in all a field force of more than 300 electric line and tree personnel has been assembled.
Wasserman - Schultz, D - Weston, said she will introduce a bill requiring that all nursing homes have generators and that electric utilities make nursing homes a top priority for power restoration after a storm.
Justo Gonzalez, the power company's executive sub-director, told reporters that workers were removing a collapsed tower Wednesday during unrelated power restoration efforts near the south coast and an excavator hit the transmission line.
He also deployed a team of power restoration specialists to help with electric grids that are still down.
JFK AIRPORT, NEW YORK — Governor Andrew Cuomo flew out to Puerto Rico Sunday with a newly formed tactical assessment team to develop a roadmap for long - term power restoration and sustainability.
The New York Power Authority is also sending 10 engineers, planners, technical supervisors and translators, along with drones and two drone pilots from the Department of Environmental Conservation, to help with power restoration, Cuomo's office said.
Since the storm hit, Puerto Rico's 3.3 million residents have been forced to endure an agonizingly slow power restoration effort, suffering health and environmental harms as bureaucracy, logistical difficulties, and potential corruption hampered progress.
Her proposal also calls for nursing homes to be classified as «critical infrastructure,» the highest level of priority, in utilities» power restoration plans.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the federal power restoration efforts, said they hope to have the entire island fully energized by May.
The agency, which was not involved in the Whitefish deal, has been tasked with helping the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) with immediate power restoration efforts.
More recently, the PSC, at Cuomo's direction, investigated the response of NYSEG and Rochester Gas & Electric, which are owned by the same company, to a March windstorm in Rochester where power restoration was slow.
The last of the federal government's power restoration crews are scheduled to leave Puerto Rico when their contract expires next week, leaving the island's power utility with the task of energizing the last 1.5 percent of customers still waiting eight months after Hurricane Maria.
Power generators still being used by many homes as thousands await power restoration on Saturday morning
Officials say power restoration will be done by May 31.
A 100 percent power restoration will take longer, Nicholson - Doty says, because many damaged buildings can't get their power back until structural repairs are complete.
Power restoration work in these hurricane - hit territories is proving slow, sporadic, and expensive.
Kristen Knapp, spokeswoman for the Florida Health Care Association, which represents most of the state's nursing homes, said her group supported making nursing homes a higher priority for power restoration.
April 18, 2018 - Justo Gonzalez, the power company's executive sub-director, told reporters that a private contractor removing a collapsed tower during unrelated power restoration efforts near the south coast hit the transmission line on Wednesday with an excavator...
In terms of power restoration, FPL said «wrong trees in the wrong place» were the primary cause of Irma - related outages.
To help the storm recovery and power restoration efforts, Gov. Andrew Cuomo deployed 100 National Guard members and 30 vehicles out of Camp Smith in Cortlandt Manor in to the Hudson Valley.
He said impediments to power restoration were debris removal and local traffic and fuel issues.
Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell reported that the Puerto Rican government's own missteps in the reconstruction effort, including botching a massive recovery contract with Whitefish Energy, have further hampered the power restoration effort.
Ameren is one of the electric companies that are members of the Edison Electric Institute now deploying nearly 1,500 additional restoration workers and support personnel to speed up power restoration in Puerto Rico, increasing the total number of such workers on the ground in Puerto Rico to more than 5,500.
For now, the US Army Corps of Engineers is concentrating its power restoration work across four fronts: providing emergency power, getting existing power plants up to speed, rebuilding power transmission lines, and repairing distribution systems.
Rosselló also reiterated criticism of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for not meeting its power restoration goals.
Mutual aid crews from Hydro - Quebec are assisting in the power restoration efforts, and repair crews from Vermont utility Green Mountain Power and the New York Power Authority are due to arrive later today.
At a Nov. 8 news conference, Mangano called on the U.S. military to take over power restoration.
Just as economics is driving the destruction, it needs to power the restoration.