Sentences with phrase «longer widespread outages»

«Order - of - magnitude calculations suggest that implementing a low - amperage backup service appears to be more cost effective than having each homeowner buy a portable generator and storing diesel or gasoline for fueling, especially if a region is expected to suffer more frequent and longer widespread outages,» says Sunhee Baik, lead author and doctoral student in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Long Island and Westchester County, also, faced widespread power outages.
Launched in 2001 in response to the 2000 - 2001 energy crisis and market failure that resulted in widespread grid outages across the state, California's SGIP is one of the longest running distributed, «green» energy incentive programs in the world.
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