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Record summer highs prompt rolling blackouts

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Record-setting summer heat drives more of us inside for air-conditioned relief. All that demand is more than the electrical power grid can provide. As a result, it’s likely we will soon face the return of rolling blackouts. “The power grid can only supply so much power,” says Master Electrician Jim Fish with Generator Power Systems. […]

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Are you prepared for a busy hurricane season?

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This year’s hurricane season promises to be a busy one according to nearly every weather source. It isn’t even just this year. There’s a growing trend in the size and frequency of Atlantic-basin based hurricanes, according to Colorado State University. “There has been a large increase in Atlantic basin major hurricane activity since 1995 in […]

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Does cheap power equal rolling blackouts?

Generating power is as much about making a profit as it is about providing a service. That’s the bottom-line result of deregulation. So, what happens when making power doesn’t generate enough profit to pay for new power plants? Rolling blackouts. Get ready, there are more to come.

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Could a standby generator have been the MVP in Sunday’s Cowboys-Giants game?

Power outages happen to the best of them. It happened to the NFL when the lights went out twice during a Cowboys-Giants game earlier this season. Lights atop the $1.6 billion New Meadowlands Stadium went dark twice within 11 minutes during the third quarter. Just like your house, the lights went out and life came […]

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