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Monday, June 25, 2012

Nearly 14,000 Powerless in Rhode Island

Almost 14,000 customers are without power and two substations are down in Rhode Island.

Monday's thunderstorms have left 14,000 customers across the state without power and has knocked out two substations, according to the Providence Journal. As of 12:27 p.m., there were no power outages reported in Portsmouth.  National Grid is still trying to determine the severity of the damage to the two substations – one in Johnston and another in Barrington. The former of the two serves a large section of Providence. Earlier Monday morning, the State House was evacuated after a power surge set off a fire alarm. The hardest hit area is Barrington, with 4,700 of the town's 6,810 customers are without power. In Providence, 4,265 are powerless with another 1,943 in Johnston and 1,864 in North Providence. Fewer than 50 customers are …

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Rich

10:46 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Nice thought, but you need backfeed power from the grid in order for the turbine to produce.   more ›

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Poll: Should Utility Companies Rebate Customers for Power Outages?

A Massachusetts legislator wants customers to get paid when they don't have power.

A Massachusetts legislator is urging passage of a new law that would force utility companies to rebate customers when there are extended outages. State Rep. Daniel Winslow (R-Norfolk, MA) has asked the Massachusetts House Rules Committee to take action on a power outage rebate bill. According to a release from Winslow's office reported on Wrentham Patch, the bill would require rebates to customers who go without power for more than eight hours. The rebate would be for two days of their average bill for each day the customer is without power. The move is prompted by the Halloween weekend storm that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers throughout Massachusetts, just two months after Tropical Storm Irene knocked out power …

DownTown

5:14 am on Monday, March 4, 2013

National Grid is not reinvesting profits into the network. Power outages are now common with any storm. That wasn't the case with Narragansett Electric. Blizzard of 78 we had power. National Grid sends the profits home to the UK. But they request rate increase after rate increase for the distribution network.   more ›

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