Faulty electrical grid in the DC area?

[marmar]

Why Pepco can't keep the lights on

By Joe Stephens and Mary Pat Flaherty
Washington Post Staff Writers

Sunday, December 5, 2010


In high-powered Washington, one of the world's most wired and connected metro areas, the region's leading electric company has trouble just keeping the lights on.

Pepco delivers power to 778,000 customers in the District and neighboring parts of Maryland, including some of the most affluent communities and most important institutions in the nation. But in reliability studies, the company ranks near the bottom in keeping the power on and bringing it back once it goes out, an analysis by The Washington Post has found.

In fact, the average Pepco customer experienced 70 percent more outages than customers of other big city utilities that took part in one 2009 survey. And the lights stayed out more than twice as long.

Pepco's reliability began declining five years ago, records show; company officials acknowledge that they have known of the problem but that they only started to focus on it more recently. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/04/AR2010120403721.html

[ixion]

1. Thos on "The Grid" are only beginning to know faulty

get ready for it to be less available, and more expensive.

[MadHound]

2. We have an aging and crumbling infrastructure in general,

Which is why a WPA style jobs creation program would be perfect right now. Update our infrastructure, which is desperately needed, and creating much needed jobs and a huge economic stimulus.

Instead, we're going to get more tax cuts:woohoo::eyes: The least effective form of economic stimulus.

[RKP5637]

3. It's a bizarre place, a country trying so hard to physically fall apart. n/t

[HopeHoops]

4. What do you mean "in the area"? That IS the area!!!