Page Eight
THE SUMMER DAILY
Wednesdoy, June 13, 1973
Page Eight THE SUMMER DAILY Wednesday, June 13, 1973
Heat wave hits
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Rising temps cause
power cut-backs
Power companies along the East Coast strained yesterday to meet
rising demands for electricity as another day of hot, muggy weather
left millions of people sweltering and forced some voltage reductions.
Effects of the heat wave also brought energy cutbacks in the
Detroit area, as electricity consumers began using summer
appliances. Ann Arbor, however, escaped the brownout trend
experienced elsewhere, Detroit Edison spokespersons said yester-
day.
The New York area was among the hardest hit. As temperatures
neared the 93-degree record for the date, the New York Power Pool
ordered Consolidated Edison Co. to reduce voltage to the city and
Westchester County by five per cent. The Niagara-Mohawk power
grid serving western New York state also was ordered to cut back
by five per cent.
VOLTAGE REDUCTIONS by Con Ed on Monday - when the
temperature soared to a record-breaking 95 - reached eight per cent,.
the maximum the company can manage without actually blacking out
some customers.
Power systems throughout the eastern United States chipped pin
on Monday to help the Atlantic Coast areas and lent a helping
hand yesterday. Spokesmen said power cutbacks were virtually un-
noticeable to consumers.
OFFICIALS for the Potomac Electric and Power Co. serving the
Washington, D.C., area said cutbacks on Monday were prompted in
part by the fact that several generators were down for repairs. A
company spokesman said the hot weather - and the demand for
electricity - wasn't anticipated until later in the year.
Schools in several Washington suburbs - including Montgomery
and Prince George's counties, Md., and Arlington County, Va. -
closed early yesterday because of the heat.
A spokesman for Columbus and Southern Electric Co., reporting on
scattered power problems in Ohio, said: "This happens every summer
during the first few hot days. People buy new air conditioners, frost
free refrigerators, electric can openers and we have no way of knowing
about it until they get 'em all going at the same time."
THE PENNSYLVANIA New Jersey-Maryland power pool of cons-
panies serving all of New Jersey, the District of Columbia and Dela-
ware and parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia said it was
in relatively good shape. The PJM pool cut power by five per cent
on Monday to help out neighboring systems. Spokesmen said they THE BEST JOB IN PITTSI
were lending some power to other systems yesterday as well, but did father's ice house on the cit
not expect to have to reduce voltage. and business is booming.
East Coast
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