New council named to advise PCL&P
MILFORD Pike County Light & Power (PCL&P) on Friday announced the formation of a Community Advisory Council comprised of company and community representatives whose mission is to help guide and advise the utility in implementing system and service improvements to meet the needs of its Pike customers. The Council’s purpose will be to provide an informational forum for two-way communications between the company and community representatives on behalf of PCL&P customers on issues including: electric supply rates, annual summer preparedness plans, planned outage notification plans, construction plans for short and long term projects and updates regarding wholesale power markets and related industry developments. PCL&P also will provide its Annual Electric Reliability Report to the Community Advisory Council for review and discussion. Company Vice President of Customer Service James J. O’Brien said, “Under our plan, our system will have more thorough maintenance requirements, stronger customer support goals and a deeper commitment to the community it serves.” PCL&P’s plans feature the opening of a new customer service office in Milford, more frequent and aggressive vegetation management to reduce the frequency and extent of outages caused by tree-related interference and the construction of several major new electric service reliability projects, including the possible construction of a new electric substation in the Milford area and the installation of a new third main transmission line to feed Pike County All of these proposals grew out of a joint settlement of a complaint case brought by Pike County and a number of other parties against PCL&P. The case posed questions about PCL&P’s electric delivery service and electric supply rates that went into place in January 2006 when price caps were removed in compliance with orders from the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission. PCL&P is a regulated utility that provides electric service in Pike County, Pa. to approximately 4,500 customers in the Townships of Westfall, Milford and the northern part of Dingman and in the Boroughs of Milford and Matamoras. PCL&P also serves 1,200 gas customers in Westfall Township and the Borough of Matamoras. Pike County Light & Power Company (PCL&P) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc. Community Advisory Council PCL&P Vice President James J. O’Brien PCL&P Manager Barry Short Pike Commissioner Harry Forbes Milford Borough Council President Matthew Osterberg Milford Township Supervisors Chair Donald Quick Milford Borough Mayor Merritt Quinn Matamoras Borough Mayor Richard Gassman Matamoras Borough Councilman Robert Stevens Westfall Township Supervisors Chair James Muir Delaware Valley School District Superintendent Dr. Candis M. Finan Delaware Valley School District Business Administrator, William Hessling Residential user Maryanne Monte Industrial user Ralph Berger of Voltron Electric Small business user Richard Snyder Ed Haberzetti of Belle Reve Health Center