Long Island Power Authority

NEW YORK (WPIX) -- Many people in the Tri-State area are in the dark Wednesday after high powered winds moving through the area knocked down power lines. The Long Island Power Authority is reporting 7,292 customers on Long Island and the Rockaways...

The damage from Thursday afternoon's storm, that ripped through Great Neck and Kings Point, is much worse than first thought. As massive trees that completely blocked roads were finally cleared, PIX 11 News was on hand to see even more intense...

Thousands of homes on Long Island and in the Bronx are without power after a fierce storm ripped through the area. The National Weather Service says the storm touched down in the Bronx at around 3 p.m. Sunday and swept east through Nassau and Suffolk...

Citing lower natural gas prices, the Long Island Power Authority will announce a 3.2 percent electric bill reduction Thursday - essentially rolling back a 3.2 percent increase instituted in January. The cut, which LIPA says is the second largest in its...

High wind and heavy surf hit parts of the East Coast on Saturday as the remnants of Hurricane Noel blustered northeastward across the open Atlantic toward the shores of New England. The worst of the storm could hit during high tide on Saturday, said...

ISLIP, N.Y - How would you like to have a windmill spinning in your backyard, generating enough electricity to power your entire home? Now in the Town of Islip on Long Island you can. "Typically homes with chimneys and what have you are about 30 to...

Saving he ???cannot serve two masters,??? Long Island Power Authority president Kevin Law has resigned from the Long Island Association???s board of directors, saving his agency $30,000 in dues. Law stepped down from the board in a May 2......

The ouster of the New York Power Authority???s chief executive appears related in part to an uproar over the agency???s former inspector general, who???s the focus of a widely-publicized state-police probe headedby Attorney General Andrew Cuomo....

Gov. Paterson announces formation of a working group from LIPA and Con Ed to analyze the proposal for a wind farm off Queens. Release after the jump.......

Another aide is leaving the administration of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy for a job at Long Island Power Authority. Todd Stebbins, $78,535-a-year senior energy coordinator, will join LIPA at month???s end as an $80,000-a-year manager of...

George Marlin, the outspoken author, Conservative Party figure, and one-time Port Authority executive who resides in Nassau, has this post whacking Richard Kessel's years at the helm of the Long Island Power Authority. Kessel, of course, has gone on......

Now in his second big power-authority job, Nassau???s Richard Kessel, right, finds himself drawing political static. Last month the New York Power Authority, which Kessel chairs, agreed to cede hundreds of millions of dollars to help fill the state???s......