Every time Mother Nature hiccups, JCP&L has power outages. Old wires, old poles, old transformers, etc. What have they been doing with all the new dollars we pay for electricity -- just sending it to corporate headquarters in Ohio?

This company HAS to be joking. There were never as many power outages in the past. Jcp&L gets funding for power outages they can't "control" for extended periods of time. I know many employees that work for this god forsaken power company. They have a "Cut it and Run" protocol. They cut wires if live but don't restore power. Longer times with no power equals more money from state. Directly from the employees on this one

No wonder Seaside Heights is generating their own electricity.

Do chickens have lips?

Very soon Lakewood will need their own power plant. 250,000 residents within next 10 years. Driving on Rt 70 and Rt 9 should be a hoot.

The power companies charge so much to cover the forced mandates by the crooked politicians. Utility taxes are passed on to rate payers. so are the solar credits and other scams like "free or reduced" rates for low income freeloaders. Nothing is free. The cost is passed on to rate payers. Same with phones, water and gas. Free solar is the big scam now. The state makes the power company give rebates for solar power and flouresent lights and bulbs and retrofitting. They pass the cost to us. This is called "green" energy. Wait till Obamacare hits you....LOL...LOl....LOL

what's that now... 4 (thunderstorms) for 4 (outages) -- batting 1.000

Can someone please explain to me after living in toms river for THIRTY YEARS I only lost power a few brief times sometimes only minutes and there were a lot of trees around..Now every time we have a thunderstorm we loose power What is going on???

Man what a bunch of complainers and crybabies on this site.

Ok someone explain this to me. I get up @ 5am power on. 7am no power. Does anyoneknow if something happened??

JCP&L just told me ETA of 9:30am to have power restored in brick, and in the same breath they had no idea what happened. How can you quote an ETA. To repair withno clue as to what the problem is? Sounds fishy to me

The power was out in a small portion of Lake Riviera @ 10am - way before the storms, with no explanation. Power wasn't restored until 10pm.

Yeah power back on

It's like living in a third-world country. Isn't the state Board of Public Utilities going to investigate JCP&L for its failure to maintain basic services in NJ through rain showers and full moons? Isn't it going to stop giving them automatic rate increases?

I lost one cable box on this outage. The power kept on coming on and off, It be on for 1/2 hour off then go off for 10 minutes, And this was way after the storm.
I'm sure the surges of power going on and off blew the box, I'm just waiting to see what else dosn't work..or work right. Come on JCP&L get with the program. I'll send you the repair invoices..

Has anyone one in brick get power back yet

Not so sure about Seaside Heights generating their own electricity. Jcpl is awful, just heard this AM that because of the EPA rules on coal, rates are expected to go from $16 mkw to $136 per mega kw by 2015. That's like a $1000 a month bill.thanks o bomma

If anyone gets power in brick let me know plz

Power restored at 9:11am here in herbertsville. I wonder for how long?

Power restored here to at 910

Losing power for a few hours is not the end of the world.Keep fridge shut and be careful of candles.Always have your cell phone and ipads ect. powered up and you will be fine. It could be worse look at India 620 million people lost power .And remember a young man just lost his life trying to restore power to our community.

Jcpl sucks

thats crazy

I'm trying to see what JCP&L's problems are caused by. Their distribution poles look decent with the spacer cables, but the subtransmission lines that go out from the substations aren't in the best shape. The crossarm style on those (like upside down RR tracks) is quite susceptible to lightning strikes which burn out transformers, knocking out power. While the utlity where I live (LIPA) has cheap-ass distribution poles, the subtransmission network is on newer poles with armless construction, less likely to be damaged by lightning strikes. So large township wide outages aren't common unless in the most severe of storms. Take a look along Chambers and Cedar Bridge Roads by Brick Blvd, those are aging subtransmission poles that should've been replaced years ago. JCP&L sorely needs to upgrade this part of their network. Especially since the storms are getting worse due to climate change, and the fact that the rising air over the Pine Barrens feeds these storms. It's cheaper in the long run to upgrade the network, than have lost revenue and damaged equipment from outages. Something similar happened to a line in Holiday Heights a couple of weeks ago, blew several substations when it should've detected the fault and de-energized. There really needs to be an investigation into JCP&L's equipment.