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By Tom Siebens* February 1, 2025 First Priority Achieved: AMI In 2024, the Electric Company completed installation of an automated metering infrastructure (“AMI”) system. The AMI system is already saving money and benefiting ratepayers by enabling automated, rather than manual, meter reading, more accurate billing and faster, more accurate trouble-shooting within our electric network. For

By Tom Siebens* February 1, 2025 The Break On Christmas Eve, at around 5:00 p.m., the entire West End of Fishers Island lost water service due to a break in the trunk main that supplies water from the island’s reservoir at Top-of-the-World on the East End. It was our biggest main break ever. An aging

Press release: For immediate release Fishers Island Electric Corporation Solar Economics By Tom Siebens, Director September 28, 2023 Context Fishers Island Electric Corporation (“FIEC”)* has recently made a filing with the New York Public Service Commission (the “PSC”) as required to allow FIEC to interconnect with the island’s electricity distribution network a rooftop solar facility

Update on AMI & Engineering Study, Challenges & Solutions, Renewables, and Economics

Despite the effort required, Fishers Island Water Works views a potential WIFA loan as an opportunity worth pursuing.

Electric Company fully supports renewable generation as an objective.

The Water Company is planning a major renovation of the water distribution system.

January 27, 2020 The Challenge The water distribution system on Fishers Island — it’s 22 miles of water mains, control valves and 148 hydrants – needs major renovation. Most of the system’s cast iron pipes are between 100 and 120 years old and increasingly at risk of collapse due to corrosive processes in buried iron