Will Tenafly, Englewood and Nearby Towns Be Outage Free This Winter?

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PSE&G’s Energy Strong program calls for $3.9 billion in investments over 10 years to harden utility infrastructure and guard against increasingly extreme weather. PSE&G developed its Energy Strong plan in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, a historic weather event that caused unprecedented damage and disruption to essential services in New Jersey.

The utility company  is also in the process of strengthening the electricity infrastructure  by building redundancies in the wires by installing 69kV network. The company says that with this, if a line goes down, the area the line services can be restored from another direction.

As part of the plan a new electrical transformer arrived at PSE&G’s Bergenfield  substation in March as part of its efforts to improve reliability and prevent future blackouts. The Bergenfield substation feeds power to Tenafly and Englewood, which lost power following Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Crews restored power to those communities after a week.

Barbara Lynch, PSE&G spokeswoman said that improvements at the Bergenfield substation will result in many lines from New Milford being rerouted – these lines feed power to Tenafly, Englewood, Teaneck and Bergenfield. This will eliminate overloads and increase reliability, said Lynch.