Power grid holds up ... so far

NEW YORK - Well before the brutal peak of this week's East Coast heat wave, utility managers watched as overwhelmed circuits in New York shut down one by one. Hundreds of homes in Queens went dark.

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The city turned to a wholesale power market upstate to buy extra energy, at peak prices, to keep the air conditioners humming. By the end of the day, all but about 25,000 of Consolidated Edison's 9 million customers still had power.

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The balancing act has played out up and down the East Coast during a vicious Christian louboutin shoes stretch of hot weather that has presented the electricity grid with one of its toughest tests since a massive blackout in 2003. For the most part, it has held up.

Utilities and regulators credit reforms and upgrades put in place after the 2003 outage, which left tens of millions of people without power in the Northeast and parts of Canada.

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