Jersey Central Power & Light Restores Majority of Customers Affected by Damaging Snowstorm

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Jersey Central Power & Light Restores Majority of Customers Affected by Damaging... -- MORRISTOWN, N.J., Nov. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

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Efforts Continue to Restore Remaining Customers

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Nov. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) has restored more than 95 percent of customers who lost power from last weekend's snowstorm. Most of the remaining 15,000 customers will be restored by midnight tonight, with some individual cases scattered throughout the hardest-hit areas continuing into the weekend.  

More than 580 crews throughout northern New Jersey continue to respond to more than 3,200 damage locations as a result of the storm. These are widely scattered outages primarily affecting individual customers due to localized damage to the electric service to their home or property.  Crews will continue to work as quickly and safely as possible until these remaining customers are restored.

To report an outage, JCP&L customers should call 1-888-LIGHTSS (1-888-544-4877). For updated information on the company's restoration efforts, go to [ www.firstenergycorp.com. ] JCP&L will also provide updates via Twitter on @JCP_L.

JCP&L serves 1.1 million customers in 13 counties in New Jersey.

FirstEnergy (NYSE: [ FE ]) is a diversified energy company dedicated to safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its 10 electric distribution companies comprise the nation's largest investor-owned electric system. Its diverse generating fleet features non-emitting nuclear, scrubbed baseload coal, natural gas, and pumped-storage hydro and other renewables, and has a total generating capacity of nearly 23,000 megawatts.

SOURCE FirstEnergy Corp.

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