New York and 1547 now [RE-wrenches]

[Allan Sindelar]

Jeff,
Considering today's top news headline, your post is prescient and your
timing is uncanny.

Start stocking up on large battery systems.

Allan @+E

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Yago" <jryago at earthlink.net>

> Two years ago I gave a speech in New York City related to energy
> reduction techniques for commercial buildings.  After the program
> ended, two engineers came up to me with name badges from Con Edison.
> I had hit their "hot button" when I mentioned the future
> un-reliability of the utility grid and major increases in demand
> charges (and how to reduce them).
>
> Anyway, they said the New York, New England, Canada areas have plenty
> of power generation capacity (this was in the fall 2001), but that
> there was only one major grid line that connected everything together
> and they were running over 110% design capacity on this inter-connect
> high voltage line EVERY summer.  These were two very concerned senior
> utility engineers, and they said it was only a matter of one year
> before "New York would make California power problems look like a
> minor blip".
>
> Maybe if the public was told how the utilities are putting every road
> block they can in the way of alternative energy we could make a
> difference........ na, who am I kidding.
>
> Jeff Yago
>

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