No sweat: plenty of electricity in NY this year
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- October
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<Â The state didn’t come close to breaking its all-time record for electricity demand this summer, according to a report issued today.
  Top day for electric use this year was 32,169 megawatts, on Aug. 8. That may sound like a lot, but it was almost 2,000 megawatts below the peak set on Aug. 2, 2006: 33,939 megawatts.
  This summer was about as hot on average as last year, but there were fewer exceedingly hot, humid days, according to the New York Independent System Operator, which runs the wholesale electricity market.
 “Once again, New York’s bulk electricity grid showed that it can take the heat,’’ said Mark Lynch, head of the New York ISO “As we forecasted in May, there were adequate supplies of electricity to safely and reliably meet electricity demand in New York State this summer.’‘
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
