Talk:Consolidated Edison/Archives/2014

News section

Moved this stuff here since Wikipedia is not an up-to-date news site. --Jtalledo (talk) 23:02, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but this has gained some amount of attention. Shouldn't the Astoria blackout be covered somewhat? Pacific Coast Highway ^{(blah • Closed Captioned)} 23:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

News is for WikiNews. I think it warrants a mention as part of a trend, but as it is it's news. That's why I moved it to the talk page. A section called "Blackouts", "Accidents" or something can be added, just remember to use Time-free facts. --Jtalledo (talk) 09:59, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Maybe Current trends in American blackouts? We can mention the trend toward deregulation,.. i.e. less incentive to maintain (no more cost plus pricing) on electric rates its wires because it is a cost not a profit center that it was under the PSC Bona Fides 16:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Recently in the news

Stray current issues

Jodie S. Lane was killed in 2004 while walking her dog when she stepped on a metal plate with live current in the East Village. [1] Recently, there have been many reports of stray current. [2] It had later been reported in the news that Con Ed had settle several prior lawsuits about stray voltage in sums exceeding six figures.

2006 Northwest Queens Power Outages

As Day nine starts, about a couple of thousand are still without power [3]. An unresolved series of power outages struck the northwest section of Queens in July 2006, primarily affecting the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside, and Woodside. The outages affected some 100,000 people, caused airport and transit delays and cancellations, and caused unsavory living conditions due to a concurrent heatwave. The extent of the outage and perceived poor response on their behalf prompted criticism to be levied on ConEdison and mayor Michael Bloomberg [4][5][6][7][8]. At the press confeence on Wednesday July 19, 2006 (as seen on Time-Warner's NY1 local cable news) Mayor Bloomberg snapped at reporters for asking about the power outage in Astoria. The Queens power problem had been a constant item on NY1's 9PM show The Call hosted by John Schiumo for the entire week of Monday July 17, 2006 to Friday July 21. He received calls from frustrated Astoria residents who managed to relocate with friends or relatives to be able to see the show and call in. In addition, there were calls from MTA officials explaining how the power problem affected the subways that week (July 17-21). By Friday, when the full extent of the problem was revealed, Bloomberg changed his stance.

The northwest Queens power outages coincided with a heat wave in the New York City area the week of July 17 [9]. Their effects included knocking out power at LaGuardia Airport and parts of the Subway [10]. Subway service was restored Thursday morning [11]. They also caused Rikers Island to switch to backup generators [12].

The worst result of the outages was a prolonged loss of power to 100,000 northwest Queens residents beginning on July 17 [13]. This outage was originally estimated by ConEdison to have affected only 1,600 customers [14]. ConEdison defines a customer as a single edifice such that an entire residential building is counted as one customer. ConEd later revised its estimates tenfold [15].

ConEd first believed it could restore power by the end of the day July 23 [16], but their CEO Kevin Burke later refused to announce a timetable for full restoration [17]. By July 24 (one week after the incident), about half of the customers affected had their service restored. The other half are still in the dark and New York City government will remain to provide food and shelter until they are all restored. There have been reports of offers of reimbursement for spoiled food of up to $300 per customer, however officials from Con Edison’s claims department told residents they could submit a claim of up to $150 without receipts, or $350 with receipts, and merchants may file claims of up to $7,000 [18]. Also, in a separate press release, the power company has stated that the requirement for grocery receipts will be waived [19].

The cause of the outages - which was undetermined for five days - appeared to be the company's decision to continue supplying power to the 400,000 people serviced by twenty-two feeder cables after ten of them had failed, overloading the remaining twelve [20]. After these were repaired, a manhole-to-manhole inspection and repair of smaller cables which had also burned took place [21]. Consolidated Edison is due to make an initial status report, regarding the outage, on August 2nd [22].

In response to perceived inadequacies of Con-Ed's response, on Monday July 24, Councilmember Eric Gioia has called for the ouster of the CEO, Kevin Burke, on WNYC's radio show the Brian Lehrer Show.

Gubernatorial debate

On July 25, 2006 the leading candidates Thomas Suozzi and Arnold Spitzer addressed the blackout issue. New York State Attorney General Spitzer claimed to have asked for reports following the 1999 Washington Heights and 2003 blackouts.

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September 11th Terrorist Attacks

Why is there no reference to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks? That was obviously a major event in the company's history considering one of it's major power plants which was located underneth the World Trade Center complex was completely destroy when both the North and South towers came crashing down. Rosie, Queen of Corona (talk) 20:29, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Far as I know, there was a moderately large (less than quarter Gigawatt) Electrical substation but no Power station. Maybe we should add a list of major Con Ed generating stations, of which I think there remain about a dozen after the abandonment of the Turtle Bay and Hell's Kitchen plants and others. Jim.henderson (talk) 17:27, 25 March 2009 (UTC)