Queens Blackout Report Scorches Utility
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A state regulatory agency yesterday released a blistering report on last summer’s blackout, charging the local utility’s performance was “unacceptable and a gross disservice to its customers,” tens of thousands of whom lost power for several days.
The 185-page Public Service Commission report details a litany of mistakes that Consolidated Edison made during the blackout in July 2006 and said the company needed to make “critical and substantial” improvements.
The report said about 174,000 people lost service or experienced low voltage, many more than the 100,000 that Con Ed claimed.
