GPU Energy Concentrates Efforts in New Jersey; Thanks Customers for Patience.READING, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 1999-- Clearing the debris of fallen trees, resetting electric utility poles A utility pole, telegraph pole, telephone pole, power pole, or telegraph post is a post or pole upon which telecommunication network equipment is situated. and restringing miles of wire has kept GPU GPU: see secret police. (Graphics Processing Unit) A specialized logic chip devoted to rendering 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs for fast graphics rendering. Energy crews working around the clock to restore electric service to more than 170,000 customers. GPU Energy crews have restored electric service to more than 170,000 of the 200,000 customers affected by Tropical Storm Floyd The name Floyd was used for four tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean.
"Restoring electric service is labor intensive Labor Intensive A process or industry that requires large amounts of human effort to produce goods. Notes: A good example is the hospitality industry (hotels, restaurants, etc), they are considered to be very people-oriented. See also: Capital Intensive, Trading Dollars during any outage out·age n. 1. A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage. 2. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power. ," said George Repko, vice president of business development for GPU Energy. "Not only did crews have to reset poles, clear trees and restring electric wire, but in several counties in northern New Jersey, the roads were impassable due to flooding. Access problems in many areas hindered restoration and made this emergency more difficult." As the majority of GPU Energy customers in eastern Pennsylvania were restored, crews not working on isolated outages were dispatched Dispatched was a Swedish melodic death metal band formed in 1992 by Daniel Lundberg. Their sound is very similar to the older Gothenburg style of early In Flames. Biography Dispatched was formed just before New Year's Eve of 1991 by Daniel Lundberg and Krister Andersson. to New Jersey to assist with the restoration efforts. More than 400 GPU Energy and contractor crews have been working to restore electric service. In addition, crews from Michigan, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland, as well as the National Guard, are assisting in the effort. "Electric service interruptions are a major disruption disruption /dis·rup·tion/ (dis-rup´shun) a morphologic defect resulting from the extrinsic breakdown of, or interference with, a developmental process. ," continued Repko. "We understand that. I would like to thank our customers for their patience as we work as quickly and safely as possible to restore service. The GPU Energy Customer Service Centers have fielded more than 193,000 customer calls since September 16th. Our representatives have been working extremely hard to provide up-to-the-minute progress reports to our customers." By Friday, September 17, GPU Energy had deployed all available employees to assist in the restoration efforts -- more than 3,000 GPU Energy employees and 1,000 contractors. GPU Energy representatives were stationed in emergency management agencies across New Jersey to work with customers' safety concerns. More than 90 percent of GPU Energy's one million customers in New Jersey are expected to be restored by Monday. GPU Energy is requesting that customers who return to their homes in flood areas, and find that they are without electric service, contact GPU Energy at 1-800-545-7738. |
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