Long Island Power Authority Sued Over Hurricane Sandy
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New York’s Long Island Power Authority and National Grid Plc, which operates the utility’s electricity network, were sued over their Hurricane Sandy response while about 45,000 of LIPA’s customers remained blacked out two weeks after the storm.
Two customers accuse LIPA of failing to provide electric services because of its “disregard” in management and maintenance of equipment, facilities and personnel and its “failure to replace an outdated, obsolete outage management system which lacks the ability to manage large-scale outages,” according to a complaint filed today in New York State Supreme Court in Nassau County.