{"id":1914,"date":"2011-06-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/detroit-cuts-power-due-to-heat-too-bad-they-didnt-have-solar.html"},"modified":"2011-06-13T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:00:00","slug":"detroit-cuts-power-due-to-heat-too-bad-they-didnt-have-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/detroit-cuts-power-due-to-heat-too-bad-they-didnt-have-solar.html","title":{"rendered":"Detroit cuts power due to heat: too bad they didn’t have solar"},"content":{"rendered":"AP reported 10 June 2011,\n\nHalf the country wilts under unrelenting heat<\/a>:\n
\n\n<\/a>\nDetroit officials intentionally cut power to city hall and a convention\ncenter Thursday to prevent the municipal power system from crashing from\nhigh energy demand \u2014 even though temperatures had tapered to the 70s\nafter two days above 90. Equipment failures knocked out power to several\nother government buildings and traffic lights in parts of the downtown.\n

\n“Because there was a short window of time, we had to make a decision\nto take some of our customers off to prevent a blackout of the entire\ncity,” Detroit mayoral spokeswoman Karen Dumas said.\n<\/blockquote>\nToo bad they didn’t have solar, which would have provided peak power\nat peak load.\n

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