The council also wants reports on all power-line failures caused by line contact with trees.
But the region escaped yesterday with only minor failures caused by equipment overheating.
"If that balancing test is removed, mistakes, bad decisions, and policy failures caused by deliberately ignoring the evidence, will be concealed", says Frankel.
But they are also less reliable, prone to failures caused by poor weather or illumination, dirty plates and variations in plate design.
Even now there are occasional egg shell failures caused by DDT contamination from wintering grounds south of the border and from still-hot dump sites here.
Last year, it was called to task by the State Board of Public Utilities for its response to power failures caused by severe thunderstorms in August.
LATE last month, nearly three million Floridians were without electricity after a cascade of power failures, caused by equipment problems, swept across the state.
Wireless communications near hospital patients would have been unthinkable a few years ago, when reports about pacemaker and pump failures caused by radio transmissions abounded.
One of the hottest sellers is a model that is powered by batteries so it will keep working during power failures caused by natural disasters.
In Connecticut, 670,000 customers had lost power — roughly half the state — which surpassed power failures caused by Hurricane Gloria in 1985.
No sooner had the report been published than food prices began rising, partly because of crop failures caused by just such extremes.
