Each time the temperature spiked last summer, the chairman of the Long Island Power Authority issued a stern warning that without new power plants, there could be rolling blackouts.
Canadian officials said there could be rolling blackouts through the week, in large part because the province relies on some old nuclear plants that will take several days to return to full operation.
They could be in a blackout and not remembering anything at that moment.
"I didn't know that blackouts could be so severe and that you could have unprotected sex and you could die from it," said Ryan Scharf, 15.
The doctors were reluctant to divulge what they were looking for, but I had read online that heart conditions causing sudden blackouts could be fatal.
Britain could be facing nationwide festive blackouts next winter unless radical changes are made to the UK's electricity network, a report has said.
Even assuming that the radiation damage does not permanently scar a significant part of Japan, that country's output will fall sharply for a time, and that time could be extended if rolling blackouts remain necessary.
While that is a small fraction of the 12,000 megawatts that Con Ed alone can deliver at peak consumption, it could be enough to avoid blackouts or other problems on particularly hot summer days.
Officials at the Independent System Operator said that as demand soared in late afternoon the usual peak period, new rotating blackouts could be ordered, this time in the southern part of the state, to the customers of Southern California Edison.
The state's Independent System Operator, which manages the power grid, warns that blackouts could be far more frequent and last longer if conservation does not become embedded in the public's behavior.
