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 Stories About: electricity grid AND energy AND Pennsylvania
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Real-life smart grid adventure
Keeping the air conditioners running in muggy Pennsylvania |
Patrick Mazza |
18 Aug 2007 |
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| Just back from visiting the family in Pennsylvania, where temperatures were hitting the high 90s. It was the kind of sticky, muggy, oppressively hot weather that reminds me why I live in the cool corner that is the Pacific Northwest.As air conditioners were blasting away everywhere and lights were flickering, I was thinking that grid operators must be calling on every demand-response resource they could.Back into post-vacation action, I came across an Aug. 10 release [ ... |
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| Topics: electricity grid, energy, Pennsylvania (all these topics) |
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