Not exact matches
SunPower
said in June it would it would offer solar systems with battery storage to 300 New York homeowners in what would serve as a «virtual
power plant» to utility
Con Edison.
«Over a decade ago, building new plants in New York City was easier because
Con Edison was in the business of both generating and distributing
power, and could build new plants whenever they were needed,
said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.»
On a related front, Cuomo
said he would use the state's regulatory
powers to hold
Con Ed more accountable for subway outages.
Con Ed has
said close to 200,000 customers had been without
power this week following back - to - back nor'easter s. Friday night, the number dipped below 8,000 outages in Westchester, but there is still outrage in the county.
Con Edison
says it still had about 28,000 Westchester County customers without
power on Tuesday morning but expects to have the «vast majority» restored by 11 p.m.
Legislative leaders have generally opposed the
Con Con with cynics
saying that a New York Constitutional Convention could erode their
power.
Con Edison's president
said that the company is not on the hook financially for a
power failure that shut down a Metro - North commuter rail line for 12 days.
Mayor Bill de Blasio
said that the recently - passed New York State budget is a mixture of «simple pros and
cons» and vowed that he will lobby Albany on his proposal to impose a new tax on sales of properties worth $ 2 million and to see his administration's
power over the city's school system extended at least another year.
Engel
says Con Ed should issue refunds to those who were left without
power for a prolonged period of time.
Con Ed
said Wednesday's nor» easter caused an additional 40,000
power outages — on top of the 20,000 customers who had been in the dark since Friday's snowstorm.
NEW YORK, NY —
Con Edison is warning customers about a scam in which a caller
says the company will shut off
power for an extended period unless the customer immediately pays a deposit for a smart meter.
Con Edison
said there are no more customers who are without
power due to the storm.
Con Ed
said it has crews helping restore
power from as far away as Cananda.
Power in Manhattan should be back by the end of the week, but the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Westchester County could be without electricity for far longer,
Con Edison
said.
But the Daily News
says it obtained emails showing that MTA officials tried using
Con Ed as a scapegoat by expanding the definition of what constitutes a
power - related incident.
Schuiling
says that before the Red Sea is tapped for
power, experts would have to weigh the pros (reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on oil) and
cons (the disruption to local marine life and increase in salinity of the remaining seawater as well as the impact on tourism and transportation).
A few minutes into
said conversation the car has had enough of running the air -
con on just battery
power, so starts up again.
An interesting result of the growing
power of the market is that artists and their dealers are looking for ways, through copyright law, to
con trol what is written or broadcast about the work, so as to prevent critics who might feel less than prostrate admiration for it from
saying anything about it at all.
All of this fell apart in the 1960s and «70s for reasons I'll get to in a moment, suffice it to
say the executives who ran
Con Ed fervently believed that the inability to continually build new
power plants would be a disaster for the company, the economy and the nation.
A friend of mine with an interest in critical infrastructure security
said one could get an excellent history of Hurricane Sandy as it approached the New York City area, then hit, then was cleaned up after, by reading the tweets from
Con Edison, the
power company.