JCP&L

Elected officials express continued exasperation with JCP&L, and tree pruning remains a key focus and topic of disagreement.

Millions of PSE&G customers will ultimately receive smart meters now that the utility has been given the green light from the NJ Board of Public Utilities to install them.

The BPU approved a rate hike that will cost the average customer around $54 a year, starting in November 2021. A management audit is planned.

Customers can contact their electric, gas and water providers about deferred payment plans, before service shutoffs resume in October.

JCP&L has resisted calls to have it reimburse people for lost food or medicine.

Federal officials recommend after four hours without power, throw out refrigerated perishable food such as meat, poultry, fish, eggs and leftovers.

In Judi's opinion this was an arbitrary date but at least to give people something to hope for —a way to plan.

The tornado's 100 mph winds flipped over a tractor trailer and ripped the roof off several houses, according to the National Weather Service.

The utility company says it has accumulated unrecovered storm costs of "more than $300 million."

PSE&G has a handful of homes left and expects its customers to be fully restored by late Thursday afternoon.