In the first Zpryme/Fierce Smart Grid Index (SGI*) online poll 79 percent of Smart Grid executives feel that Smart Grid technologies could have helped utilities impacted by Hurricane Sandy restore power faster. The poll was taken on November 1st and November 2nd this week. The SGI conducted with 186 Smart Grid executives on Thursday, November 1 through Friday, November 2 asked, given the massive damage and power outages caused by the storm (Sandy) that just hit the Northeast United States, do you think that Smart Grid technologies could have helped utilities restore power faster had they been fully deployed (in transmission and distribution systems)? A notably significant 79 percent of executives responded “yes”, 21 percent “no.” This timely feedback from decision makers across the energy ecosystem underpins the need for a smarter grid. The extensive disturbance to electricity from Hurricane Sandy raises questions over whether the Smart Grid could make the current U.S. grid more resilient. Rewind a couple days, 8:00 pm EDT October 29, the National Hurricane Center reported Sandy made landfall near Atlantic City, NJ as a post tropical cyclone. The storm has brought heavy rain, winds, and snow in higher elevations to the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and portions of Midwest U.S. From the storm with new information from the DOE, Zpryme compiled five days of data across U.S. states that have been affected by the hurricane. Total Hurricane Sandy Power Outages by Day: Oct. 29 – 316,563 Oct. 30 – 8,204,190 Oct. 31 – 6,062,526 Nov. 1 – 4,454,650 Nov. 2 – 3,491,595

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Total Power Outages, Number of Customers Without Power by State
October 29, 2012 - November 2, 2012
(Data presented are as of 3pm EST)
Source: U.S. Department of Energy, Hurricane Sandy Report; Graphic: Zpryme
9,000,000
8,204,190
8,000,000
7,000,000
6,062,526
6,000,000
5,000,000
4,454,650
4,000,000
3,491,595
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2,000,000
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316,563
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29-Oct-12 30-Oct-12 31-Oct-12 1-Nov-12 2-Nov-12
New Jersey 87,649 2,615,291 2,052,724 1,733,202 1,491,529
New York 105,089 2,097,933 1,948,282 1,525,969 1,269,392
Pennsylvania 12,944 1,221,536 800,745 509,839 304,094
Connecticut 2,073 626,559 502,465 348,294 232,142
West Virginia 271,765 218,490 139,581 95,956
Ohio 267,323 162,637 96,880 60,273
Massachusetts 30,413 256,039 82,809 12,883 2,248
Maryland 20,199 253,315 103,997 40,760 17,803
Virginia 11,125 147,622 33,835 7,538 2,176
New Hampshire 18,190 136,565 55,809 8,324
Rhode Island 11,009 116,592 50,468 21,376 5,962
Maine 72,049 9,145
Michigan 69,006 35,422 10,004 10,020
Delaware 2,406 18,611 2,757
Indiana 9,224
Kentucky 8,379 2,941
Vermont 8,104
District of Columbia 3,010
Tennessee 2,120
North Carolina 15,466 1,998
Illinois 1,149
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