Dominion Virginia Power announced that its crews working in extremely difficult conditions have restored electric service to nearly half of the customers whose electricity has been interrupted by the record-breaking winter storm.
With more severe weather expected, the company is prepared to respond to additional outages caused by even more snow, sleet and rain, increasing winds, and cold weather.
Thousands of Dominion Virginia Power employees and contractors have been mobilized and have restored power to about 101 thousand of the 207 thousand customers affected as of noon on February 6, 2010. Most of the outages have been in Northern Virginia and Charlottesville areas, where snowfall in the Dominion Virginia Power service area has been the greatest, the company said.
We are dealing with our most severe winter storm in years, one that not only interrupts electric service to our customers but also poses extreme challenges to the crews working to restore that service," said Paul Koonce, chief executive officer of Dominion Virginia Power.
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