Con Edison asked 81,000 residents and businesses in Brooklyn to turn off their lights Friday night.
The utility is scaling back the electricity by 5 percent in the areas of Crown Heights, Flatbush, East Flatbush, and Ocean Hill-Brownsville.
The move is so crews can make some necessary equipment repairs to three feeder cables.
Con Ed is asking customers to shut off all non-essential appliances like washers, air conditioners, fans, lights and televisions that are not being used.
One local resident NY1 spoke with said the utility is failing her yet again.
“It doesn’t seem like they’re prepared for these hot summers, which happen every year,” she said. “So, I’m not sure what they can do, but the need to step up to the plate. And you know, re-evaluate through out the year and see what can be done so they don’t have to make requests like this.”
The utility says complying with the request will prevent a power outage and help speed the repairs. The company insists the situation in Brooklyn will have no effect on the rest of the system.
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Hillary I frequently am found in janitorial environments and such, and would find the lighting issue you raised up a little bit uncomfortable to say the least bit. As citzens of America and Brooklyn, it is both our right to help the power company keep us somewhat a little in the dark when requested in air conditioned season. Dont you agree, or do you have bigger issues coming outward.
I don’t understand why Con Ed is always going after individuals when there are larger culprits. Like huge office buildings that crank the AC up so high that people have to bring sweaters to work. Do they need to have tons of lights on at night? What about the public schools who leave the lights on all night? I doubt the janitors need the whole building lit up. It’s the individuals who suffer from waste like that.
The same thing happened with Brooklyn Union Gas a few years ago, and look what happened. They got turned in another company for failing to work hard enough, keysfood or something similar. I would turn out all the lights tonight, it seems like the only right thing to do.