Carey noted that yesterday’s outage was unrelated to yesterday’s call for electricity conservation by the operator of New England’s power grid. With the hot weather, New England’s power demand yesterday forced power companies to dip into their reserve supplies.
—David H. Gellis and Katherine E. McCormack contributed to the reporting of this article.
—Staff writer Garrett M. Graff can be reached at ggraff@fas.harvard.edu.
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—Staff writer Daniel P. Mosteller can be reached at dmostell@fas.harvard.edu.