Nearly 3,000 Still Without Power In Mercer County

There were still nearly 3,000 power outages in Mercer County two days after the latest winter storm that ripped through New Jersey on Wednesday.

A majority of those outages were among PSE&G customers, of which 2,114 were still without power as of 9:30 a.m. To track PSE&G outages, click here.

There were still 793 JCP&L customers without power at the same time. To track JCP&L outages, click here.

"To be clear, JCP&L continues to work on restoring any customers that remain out of service from Winter Storm Riley first," JCP&L said in a statement. "These customers are expected to be back in service by 11:30 p.m. on March 10. Customers that were affected by the second nor’easter, Quinn, in northern New Jersey are expected to be back in service by 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 14."

Statewide, over 100,000 people remained without power on Friday. Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday ordered an investigation into the power companies' controversial responses to the back-to-back nor'easters this past week. Read more: Gov. Murphy Orders Probe Of Power Companies After 2 Nor'easters

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