How convenient
Jul. 11th, 2011 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoYes, very convenient for CommEd to have two bow echo storms pass through the Chicago area within a year (plus a tornado last month,) allowing shallow minded people to believe their story that the "smart grid" would improve service.
In reality, the "smart grid" is yet another scam by the utility company as it seeks to make taxpayers fund the maintenance and repairs that it has been postponing and avoiding for half a century. Deferred maintenance is the reason that there are so many electric power failures in CommEd territory, and one of the reasons that their profitability continues to rise even as their quality of service continues to decline.
If the "smart grid" is such a great idea, they should have been funding it themselves over the past twenty years, rather than trying to make taxpayers fund it for them. Unfortunately, American management has long been dedicated to maximizing short term profits without any investment in the future. We would have a "smart grid" today if utility execs had been planning sensibly and taking only modest profits over the past 20 years.
Still without power, no estimated time of recovery...
In reality, the "smart grid" is yet another scam by the utility company as it seeks to make taxpayers fund the maintenance and repairs that it has been postponing and avoiding for half a century. Deferred maintenance is the reason that there are so many electric power failures in CommEd territory, and one of the reasons that their profitability continues to rise even as their quality of service continues to decline.
If the "smart grid" is such a great idea, they should have been funding it themselves over the past twenty years, rather than trying to make taxpayers fund it for them. Unfortunately, American management has long been dedicated to maximizing short term profits without any investment in the future. We would have a "smart grid" today if utility execs had been planning sensibly and taking only modest profits over the past 20 years.
Still without power, no estimated time of recovery...
