Mon Power is continuing its around-the-clock repair efforts to restore 25,000 customers who are still without power from recent storms.
The majority of the remaining customers are located in remote areas with severe damage.
Originally, 280,000 Mon Power customers lost power when severe weather hit the region on June 29. To date, approximately 268,000 – or more than 95 percent – of those customers have been restored.
On July 1, a second storm hit the area and caused an additional 40,000 Mon Power customers to lose power. Overall, more than 320,000 Mon Power customers lost power from last week's severe weather events.
"We greatly appreciate our customers' patience as our crews continue repairing the worst storm damage I have seen in more than 30 years with the company," said FirstEnergy President of West Virginia Operations Jim Haney.
"Because the remaining work is especially labor-intensive, with smaller numbers of customers being restored with each repair, we have revised the estimated restoration times for the remaining customers to better reflect the severe damage our crews continue to discover as they work out in the field."
While the majority of affected customers in most counties served by Mon Power should be restored by Wednesday, a few customers in the hardest-hit areas might not be fully restored until later in the week.
A complete list of estimated restoration times is available on the web at www.firstenergycorp.com/outages_help/Summer_Storm_Information.
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