General Info

Orange and Rockland Utilities maintains more than 4,000 miles of overhead electric distribution lines, 600 miles of electric transmission lines and 1,800 miles of gas main. The company s two utility subsidiaries, Rockland Electric Company and Pike County Light & Power, serve a population of more than 700,000 people in seven counties in New York, northern New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania. Orange and Rockland Utilities was founded in 1899 as Rockland Light & Power when S.R. Bradley combined a number of local gas and electric companies in Nyack, N.Y. The company was acquired by Consolidated Edison in 1999. Headquartered in Pearl River, N.Y., Orange and Rockland Utilities employs more than 1,000 people.