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...latest nightmare started Tuesday morning when the local power company, Consolidated Edison, struggling to cope with rising demand caused by a late-summer heat wave, asked AT&T to help out by switching over to its own power-generation equipment. AT&T is one of 141 companies in the New York area that earn lower electric rates by participating in a voluntary power-sharing arrangement. When AT&T's main transmission facility in Manhattan switched to its generator, a power surge tripped an emergency backup system powered by batteries. Alarms were triggered to alert AT&T employees that the backup...
Lately, however, a handful of utilities has begun to try a new role: as protectors, not despoilers, of the earth's resources. Last week the environmental spotlight was on California, where two big Los Angeles power companies -- Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power -- unveiled plans to cut their emissions of CO2 20% during the next 20 years, largely through conservation programs and the use of solar and geothermal technologies. It was the first time any U.S. utility had promised to reduce its output of CO2 to help curb global warming. Southern California Edison chairman...
...last week: "I think all handgun- violence controls overpromise their results, without exception." But Brady's approval by the House represents a significant symbolic victory for the gun-control forces and shows that legislators are responding to the public's concerns about crime. Says Houston homicide division Captain Bill Edison, one of the many top police officials around the country who favor Brady: "I can't sit out here amongst the carnage I see on the streets and not support a waiting bill. A waiting period will save x number of lives. How many, we could argue about forever...
...utilities are turning with increasing vigor to other nonnuclear energy sources. California's giant Pacific Gas & Electric gets a substantial 14% of its generating capacity from renewable energy sources such as the sun and wind. Its neighbor, Southern California Edison, joined forces this month with Texas Instruments in a six-year, $10 million project that will use low-grade silicon instead of more expensive higher grades to make photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity. Says Robert Dietch, a Southern Cal Edison vice president: "This has the potential to be the type of breakthrough technology we've all been looking...
...long run may be not some new way of generating more electricity but new ways of using less. Instead of spending money to build plants, utilities sometimes find it more economical to offer customers financial incentives to use power more efficiently. In New York City, for example, Consolidated Edison spent more than $8 million in January and February on rebates to customers who traded in their energy-hogging air conditioners and lighting fixtures for efficient new models. Notes John Dillon, a Con Ed assistant vice president: "The cleanest megawatt is the megawatt not consumed...