Sandy Creates One Of Largest Power Outages In Pennsylvania History

• Scott Detrow
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  Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
  
  Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.
  
  Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

More than 1.3 million Pennsylvania energy customers  lost power this week due to SuperStorm Sandy’s heavy winds.
That makes the storm one of the largest mass power outages in Pennsylvania history.
StateImpact Pennsylvania  sat down with Public Utility Commission Chair Rob Powelson at PEMA headquarters Tuesday afternoon, to talk about what energy companies are doing to get the lights back on. Listen to the interview here:

Looking for information about your power provider? We’ve linked to each utility’s outage map here. 

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