PREPA, the island's heavily indebted electric power authority, was only able to meet a $400 million payment in early July by borrowing from bond insurers who stood to have their policies triggered by a default — an unorthodox and desperate means of kicking the can down the road.
Dining-rooms, usually brilliantly lighted, appeared quite sombre in candle-light, and while those of a poetic temperament were inclined to call it romantic and suggestive of olden times, there were others who made impatient remarks regarding the electric-light authorities.
Although some government power authorities, electric company executives, the departing power minister and much of India's news media blamed the grid failures Monday and Tuesday on various states they said had taken in more than their expected power allotment, thus causing the grid to fail, others called that a mistaken oversimplification.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla .(AP) — Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz attacked a detention officer at the county jail and now faces new charges including use of the officer's electric stun device, authorities said Wednesday.
Oil and natural gas that power the plants are the source of the increases in wholesale electric prices that the authority has temporarily absorbed.
A $56.6 million accounting error by KeySpan and other financial grievances are spurring discussions within the Long Island Power Authority about replacing KeySpan as manager of the authority's electric transmission and delivery system.
Then there are the not-so-subtle demonstrations of the power of the situation, like Stanley Milgram's famous experiments showing that ordinary New Haven residents were willing to give people electric shocks because an authority figure in a white coat told them to.
Vincent Finnigan, a world authority on diesel-electric locomotives and electric traction.
We, and some of our rivals, are partnering with city authorities and electric infrastructure providers worldwide to make electric vehicles in cities a viable option.
