In addition, employees are pledging to complete Acts of Kindness throughout the Week of Service, including collecting and donating books, food and clothing to a local charity, and donating blood to a blood bank. Due to its positive reception in communities across the state, and overwhelming support from partners and engagement of National Grid employee volunteers, the program is expanding to a week of service.ĭedicated groups of National Grid employees have spent months planning and partnering with nonprofits, schools, community centers, parks and other groups to deliver the activities scheduled for Sept. This year marks the third anniversary of what has previously been a day of service. Project C, funded by National Grid's shareholders, supports people and communities in collaboration with local partners by revitalizing neighborhoods, investing in beautification programs for nonprofits, faith-based, arts and cultural institutions supporting climate justice and social equity programs and by assisting small businesses and local families. All of our work is rooted in our deep commitment to New York, and we look forward to doing even more." "I am amazed at the impact we've had over the past two years - from helping beautify parks to providing access to technology to exposing students and young adults to STEM and clean energy careers to connecting small businesses to resources. They say you should also call 911."I am excited to join with colleagues in our local neighborhoods alongside our incredible community partners to kick off our third year of Project C with a full week of service across New York," said Rudy Wynter, President, National Grid New York. National Grid says if you see a downed wire, you should treat it as if it's live and give them a call. "We're not expecting zero visibility and the inability to gain access to the places we need to go." "If there are outages, we shouldn't we shouldn't be hampered the way we were last time around," Bertola said. Without having, you know, a foot or two of accumulating snow, we should be out there, you know, the same day. We know that we were hampered because of two days straight of blizzard conditions where we just couldn't drive or visibility was next to zero. We were out the very first day where we could. Crews are now being called in from outside Western New York - to be at the ready if there is a power outage.ĭRANTCH: How fast, in the event of a power outage, would you and your crews be able to get power restored?īERTOLA: Right, so, I'll use the last storm as an example. We're ready to go and if it was another blizzard, I would say I would be more confident in saying definitely, but it's another arrow in our quiver.Īnother big concern is ice accumulating on tree limbs and power lines. It'll depend on the combination of ice and wind. I know that we will leave that to the discretion of the supervisors and the crews. Now, a month-and-a-half later, it's one way they're preparing for the ice storm Wednesday night and into Thursday morning.ĭRANTCH: So do you anticipate then having to use those kits come Wednesday night into Thursday morning?ĭAVID BERTOLA, SPOKESMAN: It's a really good question. Using those tarps and heaters together, was one way crews were able to thaw those substations at the height of the blizzard. The I-Team's Ed Drantch has learned every substation is now equipped with heaters and blue tarps, to make sure substations don't freeze the way they did in December. During the December blizzard, machinery froze which caused power outages that went on for days. (WKBW) - National Grid is working to make sure sub-stations are working during winter weather.
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