The Grid Held. Your Lights Might Not Have.

It’s complicated and getting more complicated. That’s why off-grid is such a common sense alternative. CRE can help keep grids from getting worse.

“Con Edison cut voltage across four boroughs and into Westchester County, then cut power outright to nearly 10,000 customers in Queens for a completely different reason. Baltimore Gas & Electric ran emergency load-cycling events while cable faults tripled. Commonwealth Edison — running some of the most sophisticated voltage-optimization software in the country — still posted the worst voltage numbers on the entire Whisker Labs/Ting network. And in Lakewood, Ohio, thousands of FirstEnergy customers lost power for days, for a reason the utility and its regulator both already knew about before the heat wave started.

Five utilities, one heat event, four genuinely different failure mechanisms.”

https://kilovar1959.substack.com/p/the-grid-held-your-lights-might-not