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GPU Energy Continues Storm Clean-up.


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READING, Penn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2000

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(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 continue to restore electric service to customers throughout Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (pĕnsəlvā`nyə), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States. It is bordered by New Jersey, across the Delaware River (E), Delaware (SE), Maryland (S), West Virginia (SW), Ohio (W), and Lake Erie and New York  and New Jersey in the wake of a fast-moving line of storms that tore Tore can refer to:
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 evening.

Of the more than two million GPU Energy customers across Pennsylvania and New Jersey, less than 10 percent of customers in each state were affected by the storms.

The storm passed through the region relatively quickly; however, sustained winds clocked at 65 to 70 mph uprooted trees, damaging GPU Energy equipment. Reports of downed poles, wires and transformers were received from Northwestern Pennsylvania to Eastern New Jersey.

GPU Energy personnel monitored weather reports throughout the day on Friday. In anticipation of the storms, crews were held in areas in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Crews began working to restore electric service as soon as the storms passed. Repair work continued through the evening and will go on throughout the day today. Crews from unaffected portions of the GPU Energy service area in Western Pennsylvania Western Pennsylvania consists of the western third of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States.

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 to assist in other areas across the state. Approximately 20 tree-trimming crews have been dispatched to assist with restoration efforts in New Jersey.

In Pennsylvania, the hardest hit areas are in northeast, including the Towanda and Tunkhannock areas. In New Jersey, the hardest hit areas are in the northern New Jersey counties of Sussex Sussex, county, SE England, since 1888 divided for administrative purposes into East Sussex (1991 pop. 670,600), 693 sq mi (1,795 sq km), and West Sussex (1991 pop. 692,800), 768 sq mi (1,990 sq km). , Warren, Morris and Hunterdon.

The bulk of customers in Pennsylvania are expected to have electric service restored on or before noon on Saturday. The bulk of GPU Energy customers in New Jersey are expected to have electric service restored by 6:00 p.m. on Saturday evening.

GPU Energy customers who are without electric service and have not reported it to the Company are urged to call the GPU Energy Emergency Line at 1-800-545-7738.
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