ROLLING BLACKOUTS ROCK NEW YORK GRID!

New York’s power grid just took a brutal hit. On July 2 and 3, Con Edison ran out of options and imposed rolling blackouts in parts of the North Bronx and Southern Westchester County, as the state’s aging electric system strained under pressure. The warning signs have been building for years, with the 2019 CLCPA effectively blocking new fossil fuel plants, old units getting older, and promised wind and solar failing to arrive fast enough — or reliably enough — to keep the lights on when demand spikes. And yet, if you weren’t looking hard, you might have missed it. The story barely surfaced in legacy coverage, buried in a single sentence deep inside a New York Times heat-wave article. That’s the bigger shock here: not just that parts of New York had to be deliberately shut off, but that the blackout crisis in America’s biggest city was treated like a footnote.