Some Bangor Hydro customers could be without power until 2014
Some Bangor Hydro Electric customers in eastern and northern Maine could remain without power until the new year begins next Wednesday, according to the Portland Press Herald.
Central Maine Power Co., on the other hand, expects to restore power by late today to customers still lacking it in southern and central Maine.
Upwards of 6,300 Bangor Hydro customers in Hancock County remained without power Thursday night, the newspaper reported.
Bob Potts, a spokesman for Bangor Hydro, told the newspaper the utility has 125 workers in the field and 160 from outside the company, including 75 from New Jersey, working as quickly as they can to restore power.
Fallen tree limbs, bad travel conditions and bitter-cold temperatures are hampering power restoration efforts, he said.
CMP reported 7,000 of its customer were still without power late Thursday night, most of them in Kennebec and Waldo counties. Thursday’s snowstorm, which dropped up to 4 inches of snow in Sagadahoc, Lincoln and Knox counties, caused some new power outages and complicated the utility’s efforts to restore power to its customers.
Initially, more than 100,000 customers of the two utilities were without power following a pre-Christmas ice storm that coated some parts of Maine with an inch of ice.
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