UPDATE: Power Back on In Greenport; PSEG Supply Repaired

GREENPORT, NY - Update: Power was restored in Greenport after almost three hours Monday morning.

According to Elizabeth Flagler, PSEG media representative, the loss of power was due to a "fault in the supply" from PSEG into the village. "We isolated it and power was restored at 11:48 a.m.," she said.

Original story: A power outage encompassing the entire Village of Greenport Monday morning left residents in the dark, literally and figuratively.

Residents turned to social media Monday morning to question what had happened to spark the widespread outage. Trustee Mary Bess Phillips posted that she was at Village Hall, where all power was also out, trying to find an answer.

Greenport Village Mayor George Hubbard said the power coming from PSEG "tripped out" this morning; PSEG, he said, sent a person to the Southold substation but that individual was unable to reset the breaker so another individual was on the way.

It's impossible to find the cause of the problem until the breaker was reset, he said.

"That's all we really know right now," Hubbard said. "But the whole village is out."

The power outage left business owners frustrated. "It is hard to figure out what to do when no one knows anything. We are heading into our shop but we have no power there, either," said Rena Wilhelm, the owner of a Front Street shop. "This is not the first time we have lost revenue on account of unexplained power outages."

Elizabeth Flagler, media representative for PSEG, said a representative is on the way. "Hopefully, they'll be there soon so we can figure this out."