Power Outages Reported, Con Ed Restores Full Power to Queens and Westchester!!

                           





Consolidated Edison restored full power to about 136,000 customers in Queens and Westchester County by noon Friday, several hours after reducing voltage to more than 100,000 households there overnight. Wow, I would die!! I hope everyone is find whatever ways they can to stay cool out there!!
@ItsLukieBaby

(NYTimes)–As the temperature rose toward a forecast high of 101 degrees, Con Ed’s consumers were on pace to a record for power consumption. That record — 13, 141 megawatts — was set in the late afternoon of Aug. 2, 2006, and was not broken during the sweltering summer of 2010. But on Friday morning, the load was running about 200 megawatts above the hourly totals from the record date.
For example, at 10 a.m. on Friday, Con Ed’s customers were using 12,336 megawatts, compared with 12,003 at 10 a.m. on Aug. 2, 2006. John Miksad, Con Ed’s senior vice president of electric operations, said he expected that a record for demand would be set by the end of the week and that the company should have the capacity to handle it without any significant failures in its distribution system.
At 11 a.m., the biggest problem Con Ed faced was in Brooklyn Heights, where about 500 customers had lost power, said Bob McGee, a Con Ed spokesman.