Word: loads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plugged into a larger regional pool of power producers. Depending on the electricity needs of its 9 million customers in New York City and neighboring Westchester County, Con Ed can either 1) rely largely on its own generators, or 2) buy power from neighboring utilities if the load-or demand from its users-is high, or 3) sell off surplus electricity to other companies. Yet those choices are complicated by another fact: electrical energy cannot economically be stored. Even a relatively small variation in load in one part of the system must be quickly compensated for elsewhere along the line...
...night of the blackout, the New York metropolitan area was sweltering under a blanket of hot, humid air. With air conditioners whirring everywhere and electrical load high-though still far below the levels expected later this summer-Con Ed was importing from neighboring utilities about one-third of the electricity it was delivering to its customers. That in itself was not unusual. In the battle to keep its rates from soaring even higher. Con Ed has lately been buying more and more electricity from nearby companies that can provide cheaper power. Yet what made Con Ed especially vulnerable that soggy...
...lightning knocked out yet another line. Worse still, circuit breakers designed to reset automatically after the enormous voltage surge caused by a lightning bolt apparently failed to close. By now the utility had suffered a massive loss of some 2,000 megawatts-more than a third of its electrical load that night...
...platform. The newsmagazine L 'Express quoted from a confidential 1970 report by the tower's chief engineer, who had warned of the lift's "serious fatigue." A cylinder might burst, he contended, causing the cage to make "a rapid and uncontrollable descent" with its 80-passenger load. The elevator has not yet been fully repaired...
...alternative, Carter ordered the Air Force to load its newest weapon, the comparatively cheap (less than $1 million each) and deadly accurate cruise missile, aboard modified B-52s. He left open the possibility of putting cruise missiles aboard modified C-5A Galaxy transports and military versions of the Boeing 747. Pentagon planners estimate that Carter's plan could cost, overall, at least 20% less than building the B-1 and that it will give the U.S. just as good a capability of penetrating Soviet air defenses...