1. ELECTRICITY:
Con Ed's plan for surging Brooklyn-Queens grid may lead the way to N.Y.'s 'Restructuring 2.0'
NEW YORK -- It's no secret New Yorkers have turned to Queens and Brooklyn in search of cheaper rents and a less hectic lifestyle than Manhattan. What is less well understood is how that shift will rapidly boost electricity demand and strain the power grid in an area that might best be described as a tangled cross-section of this city's growing outer boroughs.
