Not exact matches
After the sun goes down, the battery
takes over, providing
power independent of the traditional utility
grid.
Turns out, the culprit was a semi-truck, which knocked
over a utility pole and knocked out a transformer (the
power -
grid kind, not the robot kind) in Texas, which in turn started a chain of events that ended up
taking down a bunch of sites hosted by server provider Rackspace.
Management of the Rockaways»
power grid has been
taken over by PSEG Long Island, part of Public Service Enterprise Group, which in early October issued an updated plan called Utility 2.0 that aims to modernize the company's electric system and may open the door to a microgrid project, said Jackson Morris, formerly of Pace University's Energy and Climate Center and now director of eastern energy for the Natural Resources Defense Council.