Facts, Opinion, Frustration at Hearing on BGE Reliability
Hundreds of people showed up at a hearing to share stories of power loss, frustration.
Early Tuesday morning, residents in several Ellicott City neighborhoods briefly lost power. The timing of the outage provided a brief reprieve of laughter during a three-hour hearing later that evening with the Public Service Commission in which residents discussed the ways they said unreliable power service had affected their lives. The hearing is part of a PSC investigation into reliability issues in some of the older Ellicott City neighborhoods. David Rubin has lived in the Font Hill neighborhood for two decades during which, he testified, he’s had “at least 100 outages from as brief as five seconds up to eight consecutive days, following Irene.” He told Public Utility Law Judge David L. Moore that power outages are particularly …
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John Hardy
6:00 pm on Monday, August 20, 2012
Yes, kudos to the boots on the ground. As for the general performance of BGE operations managers and executives, Mary Ellen, I believe you may be living on a planet with more than one moon. more ›