Power Outages Grow
Blackouts from wind, lightning vex utilities
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Power outages that left more than 1.5 million customers without lights this week have fired up criticism that U.S. utilities aren't investing enough to fortify electrical lines against wind, lightning and falling trees.
Blackouts in the Midwest and the mid-Atlantic states left neighborhoods without power just as a heat wave settled across most of the country, giving the electricity industry a public relations headache.
Utilities blamed violent storms packing hurricane-force winds that snapped trees and downed power lines. But consumer advocates said the outages point to deeper issues that give the U.S. worse power problems than other developed countries like England, France, and Japan.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060721/us_nm/utilities_weather_blackouts_dc
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Power outages that left more than 1.5 million customers without lights this week have fired up criticism that U.S. utilities aren't investing enough to fortify electrical lines against wind, lightning and falling trees.
Blackouts in the Midwest and the mid-Atlantic states left neighborhoods without power just as a heat wave settled across most of the country, giving the electricity industry a public relations headache.
Utilities blamed violent storms packing hurricane-force winds that snapped trees and downed power lines. But consumer advocates said the outages point to deeper issues that give the U.S. worse power problems than other developed countries like England, France, and Japan.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060721/us_nm/utilities_weather_blackouts_dc
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