Tag: national grid
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Welcome to Southborough, MA: third-world city
Another day, another power outage, courtesy of National Grid. Tonight, we lost power again. While we were out for only about an hour, the astonishingly unreliable National Grid distribution system has me thinking. First, National Grid should be heavily fined and their management replaced. Tonight, when I called “customer service” to report our outage (it…
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National Grid improved nothing after Irene; continues to tell people nothing during crises
Since at least Mark Twain, people have accepted that crappy weather and New England go together. Now, thanks to UK-based National Grid (can you picture “British” and “advanced engineering” together or “UK” and “superior service” on the same bill?), “third-world power distribution grid” and New England have come to be linked in people’s minds. In…