Petersburg's power grid: what the utility director wants you to know

Petersburg's new utility director, Steve Harbour took the podium at the March 16 borough assembly meeting to address what he recognized as a public information problem.

"In the two years I've been at Power and Light, I've built up a lot of questions and heard a lot of misinformation," said Harbour, "Nobody's fault. I worked pretty close with Power and Light for years as an electrician, and I couldn't answer some of the stuff I'm going to talk about tonight."

The 45-minute presentation that followed - a slide-by-slide look at the borough's electrical system, its current capacity, historical usa...