Saturday Evening: Evening and Sunday Department

saturday evening: U.S. Sen, according to The Japan Times. Charles Schumer said Sunday the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity should investigate the work being done by Con Edison to maintain and upgrade the city's power grid. Con Edison engineers and planners are looking into what happened at a substation on Saturday evening that caused the blackout, which stretched 30 blocks from Times Square to the Upper West Side for about four hours. ; Thousands of people crowded the streets Saturday evening, using their cellphones as flashlights while they tried to stay cool amid the humid July evening, where temperatures hit the low 80s. He added that this type of massive blackout is entirely preventable with the right investments in our grid, encouraging a thorough investigation that could shed light on wider electricity issues that could have national impact. We have a lot of networks that have aging infrastructure and antiquated systems, he said. Gregory Reed, a professor of electric power engineering at the University of Pittsburgh who once worked at Con Ed, said the utility had done a good job in restoring power quickly, but said it underscores a need throughout the country to invest more in infrastructure. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.