http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/09/us-storm-sandy-utilities-cuomo-idUSBRE8A807J20121109[font face=Serif][font size=5]New York's Governor Cuomo blasts utilities for Sandy outages[/font]
By Scott DiSavino and Daniel Trotta and Cezary Podkul
Riverhead, NEW YORK | Thu Nov 8, 2012 10:09pm EST
[font size=r](Reuters) - Damage from Superstorm Sandy to the electricity system in the U.S. Northeast exposed deep flaws in the structure and regulation of power utilities that will require a complete redesign, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday.[/font]
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"We're going to have to look at a ground-up redesign," Cuomo said while criticizing the utilities he called virtual monopolies run by nameless and faceless bureaucrats.
"The utility system we have was designed for a different time and for a different place," Cuomo told a news conference. "It is a 1950s system. ... They have failed the consumers. The management has failed the consumers."
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"I believe the system is archaic and obsolete in many ways. They are basically one of the last monopolies. ...," Cuomo said on Thursday. "If you are unhappy with the utility company, who do you fire? Who runs it? Who owns it? Where do you get them?"
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http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/11/08/cuomo-criticizes-power-companies-says-costs-of-storm-could-top-1-billion/[font face=Serif]
November 8, 2012, 3:21 PM ET
[font size=5]Cuomo Criticizes Power Companies[/font]
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“You can’t be any stronger or harsher than I have been on the utility companies,” Cuomo said. “… You can’t use any other language than I’ve used and not be worried about my daughters watching the broadcast, right? Privately I have used language that my daughters couldn’t hear.”
Acknowledging that the design of the region’s power system — including overhead wires vulnerable to storm damage — the governor derided the utilities’ preparations for the storm.
“They ran out of poles, believe it or not,” Cuomo said. “They ran out of poles. You know, poles are something that a utility company would want to have, you would think. You look at what a utility company does, it basically comes down to wire and poles and crews and trucks. These are things you would want to have. How can you run out of poles?”
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Watch it here:
http://livestre.am/4d8Bq (Skip ahead 30 minutes or so to watch him get rolling…)
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