PSEG Long Island is proud to celebrate dozens of its engineer employees for Engineers Week (Feb. 16 - 22, 2020). PSEG Long Island employs more than 140 people with an engineering job title or role, including Field Engineers, Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Project Engineers, Power Engineers, Resource Planning Engineers, Environmental Engineers, Industrial and Systems Engineers, Substation Engineers, Resource Planners, Lead Designers and more.

On Valentine’s Day, PSEG Long Island employees will share the love the same way they do every day of the year: Going above and beyond to do good in the community. Employees donate their time and effort on behalf of many charitable causes and activities each year across Long Island and the Rockaways. In 2019 alone, employees logged more than 30,000 service hours and participated in over 800 outreach events.

Working 16-hour shifts, PSEG Long Island crews have made significant progress restoring customers impacted by the strong winds and hazardous gusts. As of 9:30 p.m., 87% of customers affected have been restored. 

Strong winds and hazardous gusts caused significant damage in Nassau and Suffolk County, bringing down large branches and wires and affecting 13,944 of our 1.1 million customers. As of 4 p.m., more than 56% of customers affected have been restored.

Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G), New Jersey’s largest utility, is preparing for the strong winds that are expected in the company’s service territory today and reminds customers to stay connected. PSE&G is also preparing for forecasted rain/snow mixes throughout the weekend..

PSEG Long Island is prepared for the strong winds forecasted for the service area today. The arriving storm is expected to bring light rain and peak wind gusts as high as 65 mph, which could cause outages.

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With a recent uptick in the number of reported phone scam attempts, PSEG Long Island again urges residents and business owners to make themselves aware of the tactics scammers use to try to steal their money.  

Throughout the year, teams of PSEG Long Island employees visit the Interfaith Nutrition Network’s (INN) Mary Brennan Soup Kitchen in Hempstead to lend a helping hand in the community.

PSEG Long Island announced today it has launched a new mobile app that enables customers using Apple or Android devices to securely and easily manage electric accounts while on the go. The new mobile app is the most recent example of the company’s commitment to improving customer service through innovation and technology advancements.

Northport Daisy Troop 3658 from Norwood Avenue Elementary School made electric safety a priority at its first meeting of the year this year. The five- and six-year-olds were treated to Electric Safety Town, PSEG Long Island’s interactive presentation that teaches young people how to stay safe in potentially dangerous situations.  The girls were encouraged to ask and answer questions as the facilitator, Peter Hornick, a PSEG Long Island employee and also lifelong Northport resident/Norwood alumnus, taught them what to do in specific scenarios. 

In balancing its commitment to the consistent, safe delivery of power with its commitment to being a good environmental steward, PSEG Long Island has awarded Hailey Van Cott, a Suffolk County Girl Scout from Stony Brook, with a $200 donation towards her Girl Scout Gold Award project of improving the raptor facilities at Sweetbriar Nature Center.

PSEG Long Island’s Commercial Efficiency Program has saved corporate services company Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., nearly $700,000 on energy-efficient upgrades at its Heartland Industrial Park buildings in Brentwood over the past two years.

For National Cut Your Energy Costs Day, Jan. 10, 2020, PSEG Long Island proudly announces that business and residential customers throughout Long Island and the Rockaways have saved an estimated $280 million on their bills over the past six years by taking advantage of PSEG Long Island’s energy efficiency programs.

PSEG Long Island awarded Farmingdale’s Whiskey Down Diner with a $25,000 economic development grant from its Main Street Revitalization Program. The program offers financial incentives to local business owners for projects in a local business district that are expected to improve the economic stability and growth of a municipality.