Dive Brief:

• The president of Jersey Central Power & Light hopes the $200 million in grid upgrades made in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy will mitigate the adverse effects of any future storm of similar magnitude.
• James Fakult took over at JCP&L this summer and says the utility has spent a "tremendous amount of effort and energy" to develop a new communications infrastructure to better handle storms.
• More than 978,000 JCP&L customers were without electricity—some for weeks—after Superstorm Sandy hit the East Cost on Oct. 29, 2012, exactly one year today. 

Dive Insight: 

The GridWise Alliance is calling for a redoubling of efforts to modernize the nation's transmission grid and communications improvements in particular to help restore power as quickly as possible in the event of an outage.