Power Outages in Midwest, NYC
Reuters has a story
about the problems with power outages—Blackouts
. There are power outages occurring in many places as the heat wave bakes America, notably in Detroit and Cleveland
, and in Queens, New York
.
Only three days ago, the same news service reported the grid's boast
of meeting record demand for juice.
Blackouts happen for a number of reasons, both technical and operational. Technically, overloads trigger shutdowns in order to borrow the energy from other channels. Operationally, the easiest description is a failure of coordinated agencies to pick up each other's troubles. USA TODAY has an archived article that says what I just said
, but in a way you can understand!



