Blackouts

Some energy experts say that could cause brownouts or blackouts if Con Edison isn’t prepared.

'You can think about a heat wave as an invisible Hurricane Sandy, meaning that they both push the power grid to its limits.'

A week after the blackouts in Venezuela, chaos and confusion are still rampant.

20,000-strong NY Tech Meetup group has organized a protest today between 12:30 and 2 p.m. in front of the offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand—both supporters of the legislation.

Con Ed clocked the highest strain on our power grid ever (13,182 megawatts earlier this afternoon) which has brought along with it brownouts and a few straight up power outages across town.

While this week's dag nasty heat wave forced many New Yorkers to

As noted in our newsletter today, 32 years ago tonight, at 8:37

Charles F. Luce, who was Con Ed's chairman and chief executive between