Atlantic City Electric will improve reliability in Ocean City by installing special equipment to reduce the number of customers affected by power outages.

Reclosers will be installed for areas serving every 500 customers or fewer, so when an outage occurs outside of a substation area, fewer homes and businesses will be impacted. Instead of having a couple of thousand customers without power because of a pole accident, for instance, 500 or fewer customers will be affected until repairs are made.

Installation of these reclosers will require service interruptions this winter as crews replace existing poles, transformers and wire. Contractors will notify customers before these outages occur. The work also will require road closings and detours around the blocks where work is taking place.

For the week of Feb. 25 to March 1, the tentative schedule (weather permitting) of service interruptions will be as follows:

• Monday: 24th Street and Central Avenue.
• Tuesday and Wednesday: 27th Street  between Asbury and Central.
• Wednesday and Thursday: 28th Street and Central Avenue.
• Friday: 7th Street and Atlantic Avenue

Ocean City, New Jersey
861 Asbury Avenue
Ocean City, NJ 08226
(609) 399-6111
www.ocnj.us