Electric Deals
Why do people in the Niagara Falls region pay through the nose for electricity when they live near one of the most abundant power supplies in the country? James Heaney of The Buffalo News answers this question with "Power Failure," a tremendous investigation into the sweetheart deals that let some corporations in western New York get cheap electricity while residents pay rates that are 50 percent higher than the national average. Heaney does a great job unraveling the complexities of utility deals and showing how they affect average homeowners and limit the region's economic future. The design of this story's Web package isn't particularly dynamic, but it contains some great features including interactive maps allowing you to compare electric rates around the country and a slideshow detailing the construction of Niagara Hydropower. www.buffalonews.com/296/story/64341.html