Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning by Jonathan Mahler

Author:Jonathan Mahler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

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ONE hundred and sixty miles north, in Guilderland, New York, home of the New York Power Pool, William Kennedy, a burly Irishman, was watching the scene unfold on his own mimic board, a twenty-foot-high, eighty-foot-wide map of New York State’s entire power grid. Kennedy was the senior dispatcher for the power pool, the state’s energy clearinghouse, an oversight body created for exactly such moments.

Kennedy called the Con Ed control room to make sure that they were “getting their dogs moving,” revving up all its reserve generators. Every day Con Ed was required to report its emergency generating capacity to the power pool, so Kennedy knew exactly how much the utility had or at least how much it claimed to have. There was plenty of megawattage to offset the loss of Indian Point 3. It just might take a little while to get the backup generators up and running.

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