PSEG Long Island Addresses Hurricanes In Climate Change Study

UNIONDALE, NY — With National Hurricane Preparedness Week starting on Sunday, PSEG Long Island announced its latest effort to handle the extreme weather.

In partnership with the Long Island Power Authority, PSEG LI is developing a proactive Climate Change Resilence Plan. This is expected to address changes and trends in weather patterns projected over the coming decades.

"Long Island and the Rockaways are part of a land mass that juts far out into the Atlantic Ocean, making our communities more susceptible to extreme weather events than the rest of New York State," said David Lyons, PSEG Long Island’s interim president and COO. “From the day we started in 2014, PSEG Long Island has been making the improvements necessary to reduce and shorten outages when they do occur, and we are developing a comprehensive plan to address future risks posed by climate change."

As part of the climate change study, risks associated with increases in average daily temperatures and longer heat waves are being explored.

From 2014-2020, PSEG Long Island deployed approximately $730 million in federal funding to complete storm hardening and reliability work on more than 1,000 miles of mainline distribution circuits. Cross-arms, pole hardware and primary wire were also upgraded to a new storm hardening standard.