Massachusetts power outages plummet as utility companies run ‘massive response effort’
The power outages along the South Shore and Cape Cod plunged over the last few days, as Eversource and National Grid work around the clock to get the lights back on.
The peak of 500,000 power outages last week was sliced down to around 1,000 Massachusetts customers in the dark Sunday evening.
The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency power outage map showed 1,123 outages as of 5:30 p.m., with most of the outages in Plymouth County and more scattered ones in Barnstable County and Bristol County.
There were 777 Eversource outages and 346 National Grid outages.
“In response to the extensive and widespread damage across southeastern Massachusetts caused by last week’s nor’easter, we mobilized a massive response effort of nearly 2,000 line and tree crews,” an Eversource spokesman said in a statement, noting that some workers came from as far away as Canada, Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee.
The personnel “worked around the clock to restore power to our customers,” the spokesman added.
Throughout the course of its storm response, Eversource restored power to more than 480,000 customers, including those who lost power more than once.
“Our dedicated employees will continue to work around the clock on a small number of outages in some of the hardest-hit communities and the additional outages that have been caused by high winds yesterday and other scattered weather,” the spokesman said. “Additionally, our crews will continue cleanup efforts, removing trees and other debris, and will complete an examination of the electric system that will continue to ensure it is safe and reliable.”
National Grid workers have also restored power to hundreds of thousands of customers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island since the storm began Tuesday night.
“Our crews remain in the field today, working to complete full restoration to customers impacted from last week’s storm,” National Grid said in a statement. “As of Saturday night, we had reached 99% of those impacted in MA and will be on the job until all are restored.”
The utility company added, “We thank our crews who have come from as far away as North Carolina, Virginia and Canada to assist through our mutual aid network, and appreciate everyone’s cooperation in responding to the powerful Nor’Easter.”
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