O&R BRIGHTENS THE HOLIDAYS WITH LIGHTING TIPS

O&R BRIGHTENS THE HOLIDAYS WITH LIGHTING TIPS

PEARL RIVER, NY Dec. 10, 2019 2 p.m. — Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) has some timely lighting tips aimed at making this holiday season safer and brighter. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that each year over 12,000 people are treated in hospital emergency rooms for injuries related to holiday lights and […]

O&R Donates $5,000, Helps Place Holiday Wreaths on All West Point Graves

O&R Donates $5,000, Helps Place Holiday Wreaths on All West Point Graves

Hundreds of volunteers honored the heroic service of fallen soldiers by laying wreaths at all of the more than 7,000 graves in the cemetery at the United States Military Academy at West Point last Saturday, Dec. 7. Through its Community Investment Committee (CIC), O&R fielded a 55-volunteer team and donated $5,000 to the tenth annual […]

Two O&R Workers Rescue Elderly Man From Burning House in Monsey

Two O&R Workers Rescue Elderly Man From Burning House in Monsey

Two O&R employees raced into a burning building yesterday morning in Monsey and rescued an elderly man, who had been sleeping and was unaware of the blaze. The O&R employees, Ted Ryder and James Lynch, were driving down Old Nyack Turnpike, followed by a third O&R employee, Ross Dailey. Ryder spotted the burning house and […]

O&R’s CONTRACTOR KEY CAPTURE ENERGY RECEIVES PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT POMONA BATTERY

O&R’s CONTRACTOR KEY CAPTURE ENERGY RECEIVES PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT POMONA BATTERY

Providing Innovative Energy Storage Technology for Orange & Rockland Grid Support PRESS RELEASE Orange & Rockland (O&R) has selected Key Capture Energy (KCE), an Albany-based, independent developer of utility-scale battery storage projects, to plan, design, install and operate O&R’s new battery storage project in Pomona. Last week, the Planning Board for the Town of Ramapo […]

O&R DONATES $50,000 TO STAC MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE, ARTS STUDIES

O&R DONATES $50,000 TO STAC MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE, ARTS STUDIES

PEARL RIVER, NY August 19, 2019 — These 75 middle school students at St. Thomas Aquinas College (STAC) never dreamed they’d spend part of their summer vacation like this. Analyzing blood spatter, processing fingerprints, collecting evidence, identifying suspects and a variety of other crime scene investigation pursuits — a kind of CSI-STAC — all are […]

O&R AWARDS $20,000 TO ROCKLAND FARM ALLIANCE EDUCATION PROGRAM

O&R AWARDS $20,000 TO ROCKLAND FARM ALLIANCE EDUCATION PROGRAM

Orange and Rockland has contributed $20,000 to the Rockland Farm Alliance (RFA) to help support the expansion of RFA’s Agricultural Education Program with an initiative aimed at giving low-income students a greater understanding of how their food is grown and how it gets from the field to the table. The O&R donation will be directed […]