STATE UTILITY COMMISSION SAYS NUMBER OF POWER OUTAGES INCREASING

Pennsylvania State utility commissioners say there’s been a visible increase in the number of reportable power outages over the past two years.  An outage is deemed reportable when at least 25-hundred  customers are without power for at least six hours. A new report from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission reveals there were over 60 such outages last year with a little over 40 listed for the year before. The report cites trees on saturated ground that fall into power lines as being one of the main causes of outages.