Since electricity set it ablaze more than a century ago, the skyline has dimmed a number of times.
As demands for electricity set records and came perilously close to supply limits, power managers declared emergencies and imposed voltage reductions from Maine to Virginia.
Visit to Room 2420 of the Municipal Bldg., from which water inspectors of the Dept. of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity set out on their rounds.
And PJM Interconnection, the electric grid operator for more than 25 million people in the District of Columbia and seven surrounding states, reported that demand for electricity set a record of 62,500 megawatts.
As demands for electricity set records and came perilously close to supply limits, widespread blackouts were avoided, but power managers declared emergencies and imposed voltage reductions from Maine to Virginia, while public officials and utilities warned of overloads.
The plan will be financed by state revenue bonds, but allows for rate increases for consumers who use 30percentt more than a base amount of electricity set by region and climate.
And families in Hoboken, N.J., who still had electricity set out tables for neighbors, with coffee pots and power strips for cell phone charging.
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Vagrants, squatting in empty buildings, lighting candles and cooking without electricity, are setting fires, the authorities say.
Another 25,000 Long Islanders were sent e-mails asking them to conserve electricity by setting their thermostats at 78 degrees and postponing running dishwashers and washing machines until the cooler evening hours, after peak demand had passed.
