Dear Editor: It lasted only a few hours, but Saturday’s blackout in New York City was a harbinger of worse things to come. On the 42nd anniversary of the enormous 1977 blackout, and 16 years after the 2003 blackout that caused more than $1 billion in damage and claimed the lives of 90 New Yorkers, […]
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) has directed Con Edison to take significant and immediate actions to improve the New York City subway’s power reliability and prevent future service failures. Over the last 12 months alone, power-related issued have caused more than 32,000 subway delays and service […]
O&R Press Release John J. McAvoy, the senior vice president of Central Operations at Consolidated Edison of New York, today was named president and chief executive officer of Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) effective January 1. McAvoy succeeds William G. Longhi, who served as O&R’s president and CEO for nearly four years. Longhi, who […]