If you get it wrong, you will be financially punished.īut since a takeover is being publicly considered by LIPA’s leadership, it begs a number of questions. If you get it right, you are incentivized. I would argue that Cuomo got it right after Sandy when he took LIPA out of the equation and made the private sector responsible for operating the grid. Hervey would depart soon after.įast forward to LIPA suggesting that PSEG LI’s communications failures compel it to take the keys back and operate the energy grid.īut the idea that we would go back to a public authority that had neither the means, the motivation nor the mission to connect with Long Islanders during times of crisis, strikes me as a failure just waiting in incubation. Cuomo was forced to send his key officials to essentially live at LIPA’s headquarters, taking over from a bureaucracy that was unable to put the power back on. In the terrible days that would follow Sandy, I remember that Gov. He insisted that LIPA was staffed and organized to confront and defeat any storm. He told the audience LIPA was fully prepared for any eventuality. In 2012, four weeks before Sandy, I participated in a town hall meeting on hurricane preparedness conducted in a Republic Airport hangar both county executives attended as did the then-acting chief executive of LIPA, Michael Hervey. For anyone who remembers LIPA’s handling of Superstorm Sandy, that should set off alarm bells.
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