New York – Citing problems with electrical equipment, Consolidated Edison announced on Monday that it had decreased voltage to parts of Brooklyn by 8 percent and asked customers there and in part of the Upper West Side of Manhattan not to use “nonessential” electrical appliances, including air-conditioners, until the problems were corrected.
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The utility said about 123,000 customers in the following areas of Brooklyn were affected: Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
On the Upper West Side, the affected area includes about 78,000 customers bounded by 111th Street, Central Park West, 71st Street and the Hudson River.
The announcement came on a day when temperatures in the city exceeded 90 degrees and electrical use was at its highest of the year.
Con Ed called the measures precautionary.
While crews repaired cable equipment, the utility asked customers to refrain from using appliances like washers, dryers “and other energy-intensive equipment,” and to turn off lights when not needed.
Live on the west side – got a recorded call from Con Ed saying please shut off nonessential items including your air conditioners. Please refrain from laundry and “opening and closing your refrigerator and freezer”. I did leave the AC on because its so hot! but BH didnt lose power….yet
I think they should raise pricing again, claim they are “upgrading” their system and have this same thing go on every year on the hottest day of course… When can we use our “energy intensive” (a.k.a. a/c) appliances? In the winter? Oh thank you so much that is why we bought!
9:20 pm blown circuit breaker in Flatbush-Midwood area.
“not to use “nonessential” electrical appliances, including air-conditioners”
Hey, ConEd! It’s almost 100 degrees today. A/C? ESSENTIAL.
That’s why my air condition don’t wanna make cool my house ? I thought its broken or something ..
Our rates keep going up, but when the heat waves come & we need it most, Con Ed never has enough power to go around…
the MTA and ConEd. Two organizations where the service gets consistently worse and the prices get consistently higher
In 2003, there was a massive power blackout in N.Y.C., the Northeast, and parts of the Midwest. At first, the Mayor tried to blame the problem on Canada; however, it turned out that some tree branches near Akron, Ohio fell on some electrical lines, and caused a local blackout, which continued, and many parts of the electrical grid were affected. After seven years, have the power companies done anything to prevent this from reoccurring? I have my doubts. In 1965, after a massive blackout also struck N.Y.C., and the Northeast, we were also told that it would never happen again. The fact of the matter is that the electric utilities are supposed to forecast power demands in the summer, and plan for contingencies. They cannot simply tell the public to use less electric.
Kok hakovod to the Con Ed engineers for anticipating a possible blackout and taking prudent actions immediately to reduce power consumption and keep the lights on. We should be proud to be served by a really outstanding group of professinals.
My ups on my server emails me when the voltage drops. I was contantly getting emails to my blackberry…that’s how all appliances break …
Actually, Con Ed does a pretty good job keeping the lights (and a/c) on. Compared with other utilities, they have one of the best records.
The problem during hot day is not the supply to the City: building more generating plants and transmission lines is not the solution. The problem is the load on the distribution system. The hotter the day, the more energy people draw, the more the equipment heats up. However, on a hot day the equipment is also baking in the sun (a lot of the lines are underneath our black asphalt streets) and can’t radiate-out the excess heat.
What does coned think that we should use the air contiones in winter? They ask us to conserve energy, we pay them big money the most in the whole country for electricity why cant they do that to conserve the energy from the winter and make sure that we have it when we need it most?
I am wondering, it’s a fact that con Ed charged us in new york twice the going rate for electric than any other company in the us. Question Why??????????? Also why cant we have extra transformers extra lines extra electric for when there is high consumption? We seem to have these problems every summer. Why????????
Power outages or decreases of any kind are not only inconvenient no matter where we work or live, or what country we are in, but they can cause way more problems that are often, and most likely, unforeseen. Having power offers more that we take for granted than we’re aware of I’m sure, so it’s always good to be prepared for anything. No power, no good!
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