July 13, 2007
The Providence Journal (RI)
More Power Failures Plague Pastore Complex
By Alex Kuffner
State workers and private contractors were scrambling yesterday to fix the lines damaged Wednesday. One crew late in the morning labored to install a portable generator outside Harrington Hall.
“I was on the road when I got a call at about quarter to eleven,” said Davey Medeiros, who works for The Lightship Group, in North Kingstown, the company that delivered the 180-kilowatt generator.
About 20 percent of the power being supplied to the complex’s 100 buildings is currently coming from diesel generators, Schiappa said. It cost the state up to $50,000 just to bring in the additional eight generators yesterday, he said. Click here to read the full story.
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