Power games

So I read recently that National Grid was being fined $6.5 million by New York state for too many power failures and other service problems.

Upstate NY's main power company could invest money not in improving its steadily declining performance or in improving its virtually non-existent customer service (I mean really non-existent).

Instead, the UK based company wants to spend its money instead on buying downstate NY's main electricity provider.

National Grid should get its own house in order before ruining another utility. Hopefully the state's Public Service Commission will veto the purchase.

Update: The company I work for share's a building with one of National Grid's service centers (where they dispatch trucks and crews from). We lose power several times a year. We lost power today for no apparent reason (the weather's nice, the snow melted days ago, not too windy). It says something about how unreliable National Grid is that they can't even assure the power to their own building!