Green Mountain Power is asking state regulators to let it buy batteries it will install at customers’ homes, saying doing so will be cheaper than putting up more power lines.
Despite being under evacuation orders and in the path of the catastrophic storm, five hospitals remained open and removed only a handful of patients before the Category 4 hurricane made landfall.
Severe weather in 2021 caused Pennsylvania to have the highest number of power outages since reliability record-keeping began nearly three decades ago, according to a new report by the state’s Public Utility Commission.
Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit and knocking out power to 2.5 million people as it dumped rain across the peninsula on Thursday.
Hurricane Ian is headed for the gulf coast of Florida after making landfall in Cuba, which suffered a near-total electrical outage. The hurricane is expected to bring storm surge and heavy rain to Florida.
