Power experts on the Brooklyn blackout: What happened and how can it be fixed?
In the wake of the Brooklyn blackout of 2019, politicians are pointing fingers, customers are asking “Why us?” and Con Edison is blaming record consumption. Electrical power grid expert Yury Dvorkin, however, is not at all surprised by Sunday night’s power failure.
“A heat wave is like an invisible Hurricane Sandy. Both push the grid to the limit,” he told the Brooklyn Eagle.
Dvorkin spoke to the Eagle about the causes of the outage, New York City’s electric infrastructure, and emerging technologies that could help reduce the regularity of power outages.