[meyer]

Still hearnig about smoke coming from Con Ed bulding in NY -- anybody who can verify? This is second-hand from a customer...

Not a word about that, but probably not the cause unless Con-ED's control center is ablaze. No single plant outage should do this unless things were at emergency level already. They weren't too bad in Tennessee today, though the load was pretty high when I left the office. We weren't going to set any peak demands today, but up north, it could be different - they may have had some problems that I'm not aware of. Its hard to see what's going on in other areas sometimes.

[Dane]

Power on in the Pittsburgh area.

[js1138]

My wife says the con-ed fire is a substation. I remember the great northeast blackout (1965?).

jacksonville, Florida had a citywide outage shortly after 911, caused by a transformer failure. No one seems to know how to prevent these massive grid failures, even after 40 years.