Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Individuals should be wary of someone calling from the "disconnect collection department."
Public Service Electric & Gas is alerting its customers to a scam involving pre-paid debt cards. A Spanish-speaking individual pretending to be a PSE&G employee will call a customer saying they work for the company’s “disconnect collection department,” the company said in a press release Tuesday. The person tells the customer that they have an overdue balance and their service will be shut off that day unless they pay their balance using a prepaid debit card. Customers are told to purchase a Green Dot Money Pak card and put a balance on it and provide the cashier with the phone number of the person who called them. After the customer provides PSE&G with the card number, the scammer transfers the funds to a prepaid card and cashes it in at …
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Scam promises to pay or credit utility bills.
A new scam using President Barack Obama’s name claims to provide utility bill credits in exchange for personal information, including social security numbers, according to Public Service Electric and Gas. “The scam, which has been reported in a number of states, claims that President Barack Obama is providing credits or applying payments to utility bills,” the company said in a statement. PSE&G offered the following details on how the scam works: • Someone calls a utility customer and tells them that the federal government has a program to pay utility bills on a one-time basis. • Customers are asked to provide their social security numbers to apply for the program. • The scammers then give customers a phony federal reserve bank routing …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Large-scale solar project built on former landfill in Meadowlands produces enough power for up to 500 homes
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Friday, May 11, 2012
By Tom Johnson, NJSpotlight.com The former Kearny garbage dump is a 66-acre plot of land, fallow for more than three decades, although practically within shouting distance of some of the most expensive real estate in the nation, with a bird’s eye view of the Manhattan skyline. Today, it may be emblematic of a new chapter in New Jersey’s development, as Public Service Electric & Gas and others yesterday dedicated a new 3-megawatt solar farm on 13 acres of the former landfill, producing enough electricity to power up to 500 homes. The $17.8 million solar farm project, a joint effort between PSE&G, the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, and SunDurance Energy, an Edison-based solar developer, is the first solar project built on a …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Utility crews, firefighters called to the scene.
Police closed Queen Anne Road, between West Forest Avenue and Dewey Place, while crews investigated a report of a broken gas line around 1 p.m. Thursday. Public Service Electric and Gas company crews were responding, a utility company spokeswoman said. Additional details were not immediately available. The Teaneck Fire Department was dispatched, but has since cleared the scene. A section of Queen Anne Road was closed earlier Thursday for work, but it was not yet clear if it was related to the reported broken line. A PSEG spokeswoman did not respond to a request for more information Thursday afternoon. The roadway was later reopened. Follow Patch on Facebook and Twitter or subscribe to our free daily newsletter
Monday, April 23, 2012
No major weather-related incidents reported in the area.
The flood watch for parts of North Jersey has expired, with only a slight chance of rain through late Monday possible, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters had warned of potential flooding in urban areas or those with poor drainage. Heavy rains soaked the area overnight Monday, but no major weather-related incidents were reported. Public Service Electric and Gas said about 300 customers were without power across its service area. There were no reported outages in Teaneck early Monday. The utility asked residents not to touch downed wires and report outages to 1-800-436-PSEG. The state’s Office of Emergency Management was monitoring storm conditions Sunday, the agency said in a news release over the weekend. “We are …
Sunday, February 12, 2012
A shorter timeframe for power auctions and more in-state capacity could have made a bigger difference
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
By Tom Johnson, NJ Spotlight Most consumers may see a dip in their electric bills this June, but the drop is likely to ignite a recurring debate over whether the decline could have been much greater. For the fourth consecutive year, residential customers will see bills decrease by as much as $6.96 each month for customers of Jersey Central Power & Light to as little as $1.37 a month for those served by Rockland Electric. They can thank a steep drop in natural gas prices for the savings. But larger commercial and industrial customers, who use the bulk of electricity in New Jersey, saw the price they pay for power purchased in an annual auction run by the state increase by 7 percent. Since the auction price makes up only a small part of …
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Power restored Tuesday night, according to company statement
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Around 20,000 Public Service Electric & Gas customers across Bergen and Passaic counties were without power Tuesday afternoon, a company spokeswoman said. An issue with a supply line at a substation in Wayne led to the widespread outages, spokeswoman Deann Muzikar said in a statement. Service was restored Tuesday night, according to a company statement issued around 7:30 p.m. In Teaneck, as many as 2,000 customers lost power Tuesday, according to the PSEG online outage map. In New Milford, 501 - 2,000 customers lost power. According to the outage map, 501 - 2,000 customers in Hackensack went out. Traffic lights along a portion of Cedar Lane went dark Tuesday morning, forcing police to setup traffic cones at Cedar Lane and River Road. …
shimon baum
8:19 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wait I thought PSE&G were the scammers. How can I tell the difference? more ›