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Originally posted by Undertoad
They will cite the transmission line from CT to Long Island under LI Sound that is still not operational (due to FUBARs by NY electric company management).
FYI, they said that connection is powering Long Island right now.
For someone who hates Action News so much, you seem to watch an awful lot of it.
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That transmission line, as described in a recent issue of IEEE Spectrum and just reported again on WCBS Newsradio, still is not operational. From IEEE Spectrum:
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In what now seems a sorry repeat of that sad tale, in May 2002, an electric power cable was placed under Long Island Sound between New Haven, Conn., and the site of the decommissioned Shoreham facility [see map]. The builder of the 36-km-long cable was a subsidiary of Hydro Quebec's transmission division (Montreal) and UIL Holdings Corp. (New Haven) called Cross-Sound Cable Company LLC. But on 6 January, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) ruled that the current was not to be turned on. The reason, or at any rate the pretext: near the Connecticut shore, 200 meters of the cable remains lying on, instead of 2 meters below, the floor of the sound—the depth required by state and federal authorities. ...
If all had gone according to plan, the cross-sound cable would have been carrying current within weeks of being laid, and LIPA would have had extra power available last summer, when demand on the island came within 1 percent of capacity. (The traditional reserve margin is 18 percent.) Instead, the cable remains off-line more than five years after it was first proposed, and another difficult summer could lie ahead.
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Two other cables already exist from Norwalk CT. These are separate and not mentioned by those hypsters. Easy for ill informed news people to be confused by those with political agendas.
To get real news, one must watch Channel 6. However when ABC Network is asking good technical questions, then local reporter Jim Gardner butts in with what he describes as "the Philadelphia perspective". He does what local gossips do. He wasted time with no facts. Eventually I connected an antenna to receive Channel 16 from Wilke Barre - so that Jim Gardner was cut out and so that real news reporters from ABC network were not interrupted by 'the Philadelphia perspective'.