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The energy behind bringing more electric to LI

The unprecedented June heat wave when temperatures hit close to 100 degrees along much of the Eastern Seaboard nearly caused mandatory power cuts — think rolling brownouts — because of overwhelming demand and a constrained transmission system serving Long Island, project directors for Propel NY told the editorial board Monday.

Those early summer highs — the peak demand was June 24 — cost Long Islanders a bundle. Long Island paid $7,000 a megawatt-hour compared with a statewide max of $3,000 a MWh because the inability to get more power from off-Island caused the price of on-Island generation to skyrocket, the New York Independent System Operator said in an October report.

Propel NY, a collaboration of the New York Power Authori

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