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Control Center Manages Electrical Flow across New York State.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2000 by Hughes, Claire
Dec. 24--GUILDERLAND, N.Y.--On Carman Road is a plain tan brick building that has served as the control center for an industry's transformation.
This is where the state's entire electric system has been monitored since 1970, and where a new "stock market" type system for the buying and selling of power is now housed.
It's the home of the New York Independent System Operator, where employees in a two-story control center keep their eyes glued to computer monitors telling them where power outages have occurred throughout the state's electricity grid. For the big picture, operators can look up at the now-archaic two-story control board -- built before computers sat on every desk -- where lines light up in red if electricity goes out between power...
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