Heat and storms — two enemies of the power grid — converged over the July 4 weekend to knock out electricity for many around Northeast Ohio.
The outages hit city-owned Cleveland Public Power, which largely serves Cleveland, and private utility FirstEnergy, which serves portions of Cleveland and much of the broader region. These were just the latest electrical failures that have frustrated residents.
CPP Commissioner Ammon Danielson put it this way at a Ward 9 meeting after outages this spring:…