Outages could become more frequent
June 5, 2008
Were you in one of the more than 200,000 homes that lost power yesterday?
A couple of us in the newsroom were, and it got us thinking: Is this a taste of what the rolling blackouts, predicted as early as 2012, could be like? You may remember a December PSC report that found blackouts could come from our aging power transmission system.
As Danielle Ulman reported last month, the latest installation of transmission lines will secure adequate power through 2012.
Todd Chason of Maryland Energy Group and Bert Wilson of South River Consulting said a lot depends on supply and demand.
Chason, who I spoke to earlier today, suggests that if Marylanders can’t find ways to reduce their usage and if new transmission lines aren’t built, then the summer of 2012 could be a disaster.
Depending on the peak temperatures that summer, there could be a more confined power outage, only affecting 10-20 thousand households, or something much more widespread.
RICHARD SIMON, Multimedia Reporter
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