"Ultimately some of the cost will fall on consumers" THAT'S BS! They make huge profits, if they had been improving infrastructure slowly over time this would have never happened to this extent. Say a resturant burns down, do they rebuild and then double their prices to recoup their losses? No, the insurance covers the cost minus the deductable. In this case regular infrastructure improvments are just part of doing business. They think they have everyone over a barrel because they negected the improvments passing the savings on to their investors and now they think they can get by with putting the cost of improvments onto the consumers. DON'T BE BULLIED INTO PAYING THEIR RANSOM!

No complaints. A CP rep called me six hours after the power went off to give info on when it would be restored. (robot call of course) Power was on already.

There's a whole bunch of lying going on

Solar power sucks the way it's handled right now. Corporate greed has hampered the acceptance of solar. How? The solar systems are set up to dump their watts into the grid and so, when the grid is down, so is your solar power. How stupid is that? You can bet there are tens of thousands of solar power owners that are pissed as hell discovering this due to the need. If you want solar, install or contract an electrician yourself and use for your 110 circuits - leave the 220 for the grid. The power company will shut off all of your power if you install a total house system... yeah. Greed.