Power Returns To Most Burlington County Residents

Less than 100 people in Burlington County remained without power as of 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night. Earlier in the evening, there were over 2,000 people without power in the county. Most of those outages were among Atlantic City Electric customers.

To track Atlantic City Electric outages, click here. To track outages among PSE&G customers, click here.

"Atlantic City Electric’s entire Emergency Response Organization has been mobilized with all company resources dedicated to restoring service to customers as safely and efficiently as possible," the electric company said in a statement Wednesday night. " ... In addition to 180 internal linemen, Atlantic City Electric has an additional 131 overhead line contractors and 233 tree crew personnel working to restore service to the affected customers. More than 240 resources from Atlantic City Electric’s sister utility ComEd, in Chicago, are joining the effort to restore service to customers.

"With the storm continuing to move through the region and the potential for additional damage to the local energy grid, the company is currently not able to provide estimated restoration times. Estimated restoration times are based on current conditions and damage. When a crew arrives on site and assess damage for a particular outage, they will provide an estimated restoration time. The company then continues to update the estimated restoration time as crews complete their work. It is too early to determine when service will be restored to all customers."

There were widespread outages among Atlantic City Electric customers across South Jersey, mainly in Atlantic, Cumberland, Salem and Gloucester counties as the fourth nor'easter in three weeks struck New Jersey. PSE&G wasn't experiencing the same issues associated with this storm.

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