Con Ed warns that other failures could occur

Con Edison is still baffled by what caused the weekend's general blackout – and warned Monday that further blackouts could occur with a heat wave on the way.

"We expect that there will be interruptions of service – all of this happens during heat waves," said Mike Clendenin, the spokesman for the electricity company, during a news conference. 39, a morning appearance on PIX11.

Insisting that the company invest $ 2 billion each year to prepare for the increase in electricity demand when mercury increases, Clendenin said Con Ed would be "prepared."

"We know it will be intense," he said of forecast temperatures reaching 100 degrees this week. "This coming heat wave is something else and we must prepare for it."

But he admitted that engineers still have no idea why Saturday's blackout left 73,000 people without electricity in Manhattan.

"We are very, very focused on the exact examination of what happened and caused this breakdown," Clendenin told the station, explaining that she did not know why the circuit breakers "did not isolate the problem. Of a "significant" disturbance of the transmission.

"New Yorkers have been very patient and confident during the outage. The same kind of patience and diligence will be needed as engineers and experts analyze the date in detail and actually analyze how the equipment triggered, or what went wrong, that led to the major breakdown Clendenin said, "Unfortunately, with such failures, it takes a bit of time and understanding."

Confirming the failure was neither heat-related nor excessive, he said "fortunately no major or major damage", admitting that it would have left the electricity longer.

Clendenin has attempted to eliminate critics of the company – with Governor Andrew Cuomo warning that Con Ed "can be replaced" – asserting that it provides "the absolute best network to which New Yorkers are." expect and deserve ".

"In fact, the New York network is probably better than any other network you will find anywhere else in the United States," he told PIX11, saying they were "open to anyone's ideas." "to become even better.