America’s power grid: reliable electricity 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
One of the few things left in America that still works correctly and separates us from third world cesspits.
Obama is trying to destroy the power system by shutting down coal mines and coal generators.
But that’s not working fast enough so now they are going to “fix” a system that’s not broken.
Montgomery County, MD, eh not so much.
In one of the ten richest counties in the USA we have Pepco, which for the last two decades has been striving for third world capability. We might very well have the highest full house back-up generator per housing unit rate in the country.
Piss poor mgmt incapable of fore seeing the rapid growth which should have been evident from construction permit applications both in housing unit quantity and increased load per unit. Add the increased load imposed by consumer electrical goods on the aging existing housing stock coupled with the ultra liberal political structure it's a wonder that we don't have more outages than we do.
The same circumstances hold true for the Northern Virginia areas that Pepco serves.
Where I live transformers blow with regularity 5 or 6 times a year. (That's both pole and ground installations installed in the 60's.)
The local Lowe's starting selling 100 count AAA and AA batteries that coincided with the introduction of cheaper and more efficient LED emergency lighting. And they are sold out almost as soon as they hit the shelves. Now clerks just nod their their heads knowingly and say, "Pepco, right".