Jersey Central Reports 127,000 Without Power in North Jersey

Over a hundred thousand Jersey Central Power and Light customers across northern New Jersey were without power Sunday due to Hurricane Irene.

JCP&L spokesman Ron Morano said that the outages all across the power company’s service area throughout the northern part of the Garden State, including in Springfield and Summit., have impacted 127,000 customers. He said that he did not have specifics in terms of how many JCP&L customers are without power on a county-by-county basis.

Morano said the outages have been caused by utility polls falling, along with trees and tree limbs falling on to power lines, along with equipment damage caused by the flooding.

PSE&G reported that 58,000 residents were without power in Union County, among 313,000 statewide.

Morano said that it would take the power company several days to restore power across the region.