Over 244,000 homes and businesses in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states remained without power on Wednesday after severe thunderstorms rolled through the region overnight.
_0">Buckeye Partners LP, a U.S. petroleum pipeline operator, said in a notice to shippers that its Laurel refined products pipeline from Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, was shut due to a power failure.
Officials at Buckeye were not immediately available for comment.
Exelon Corp's PECO utility in the Philadelphia area said it expected to restore power to the Buckeye pipeline in about three hours.
Exelon said the storm affected about 260,000 customers and the company expects to restore power to most of the 43,000 still without service on Wednesday and Thursday. PECO, however, said that some customers in the hardest-hit areas may have to wait until Friday for power to be restored.
The following lists outages by utility:
Power Company State Out Now
National Grid NY 43,800
Exelon - PECO PA 43,500
FirstEnergy WV 38,700
FirstEnergy PA 27,300
FirstEnergy MD 24,800
PPL PA 19,800
Iberdrola - NYSEG NY 12,600
Exelon - BGE MD 12,500
_0">PSEG NJ 6,200
_1">FirstEnergy NJ 3,700
_2">Pepco - Pepco DC, MD 3,500
_3">Iberdrola - RG&E NY 3,200
_4">AEP - Appalachian VA, WV 2,000
_5">Green Mountain Power VT 1,300
_6">Pepco - Delmarva DE, MD 1,200
_7"> _8">Total 244,100
_9"> _10"> _11">(Reporting by Scott DiSavino and Robert Gibbons in New York; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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