Rating of utility service conductors in NYC

The bigger the outfit, the larger unplanned energetic thermal event they can afford to absorb into their operating budget now and then.

Us mom and pops can't afford to have something like that happen that we have to pay for, but they can.
It you have to look at the grand scale of things. A transformer failure may look like an expense, but what it really means is they didn't spend a bunch of money over sizing thousands of other transformers.
 
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