VIDEO: Lakewood Mayor Ray Coles Says He’s “Extremely Frustrated“ with Electric Company Over Power Outage

UPDATE: Moments after publishing the video, TLS received the following update from Mayor Coles, which he received from JCP&L.

“JCP&L inspections of damaged substation equipment are ongoing and restoration is dependent on inspection results. If all checks out okay, restoration is expected by the 7:30-8:00pm timeframe. We are simultaneously working on backup restoration plans that are more time consuming in the event damage is more extensive.”

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13 COMMENTS

  1. There are numerous issues with JCPL, such as, that there are literally hundreds of street lights out. I’ve emailed Ray numerous times and Jcpl and have gotten nowhere.

  2. I think we should all stop paying our electric bills till they fix this whole system, what’s the worst that can happen?? They will shut off our electricity?? It’s anyway shut down so much, we already know how to deal with it!!!

    Enough is enough!!!

    • too many people, that’s the problem. this town keeps on growing, but JCP&L still hasn’t analyzed the demographic data, so they are supplying for a town 1/3 of the current population.

      what they should have done 5 yrs ago would have been to plan ahead and upgrade the capacity.

      well, they will get it straight some day, any decade now.

      • Yah, well if Lakewood Township itself plans poorly and over expands, don’t expect the utilities, and the State or County for that matter, to start tripping over the.selves to accommodate.

  3. Everything comes from.Hashem. Major outage on 5TH NIGHT OF CHANUKA. Means Hashem telling you to bring more light….has nothing to do with JCP&L….

  4. the issues with the township involve congestion, traffic and parking, whereas the issue with the power grid is too little power to the entire township regardless of how the people park and get around within a specific area.

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