New York’s multibillion-dollar power line from Canada, which was supposed to be up and running this month, has already melted down twice in the first days of July.
The $6 billion project is supposed to bring enough energy for about 1 million households along 5-inch diameter cables buried underneath Lake Champlain and the Hudson, Harlem and East rivers to a converter station in Astoria, Queens. Gov. Kathy Hochul called the project a “lifeline” for meeting rising energy demand during the summer.
On July 4, the hydropower stopped flowing to New York City from the Champlain Hudson Power Express amid a heat wave and a storm in the city that resulted in power outages for 173,700 residents living in Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Westchester…