PSE&G Investigates Montclair Power Outage

An outage early Saturday morning left as many as 2,000 Montclair customers without power, but a spokesman for the utility company said that number was down to about 200 just before noon and that they were expected to be restored within the next couple of hours.

The cause of the outage was thought to be a cable failure with the main line coming into Montclair, but PSE&G continued its investigation late Saturday morning while restoring power to customers, according to spokesman Everton Scott.

“We’re doing two things: one is we’re investigating the actual cause, but rather than waiting until we find the actual problem and fix it, we’re picking up the customers using other feeders, so they should back on within the next two hours,” Scott said at about 11:45 a.m. Saturday.