Cika wannan jumla: Gidan Hasumiyar Arewacin Shore yana da tashar wutar lantarki mai sarrafa kansa wanda ke samar da wutar lantarki mai zaman kanta daga kamfanonin wutar lantarki na gida, wanda ke da damar. An lura da wannan a lokacin New York City Blackout na 1977 lokacin da dukan birnin ba shi da wutar lantarki amma har yanzu ana iya ganin fitilu a cikin Hasumiyar Arewa. A lokacin da
Rashin wutar lantarki na arewa maso gabas na 2003, Hasumiyar Arewa ta Arewa ta ci gaba da samar da wutar lantarki ba tare da tasiri ba. Wannan ya haifar da ɗaukar hoto mai yawa a cikin kafofin watsa labarai game da wadatar haɗin gwiwa game da makamashi. Bayan ganin wannan labarin na ikon North Shore Towers na samar da wutar lantarki a lokacin katsewar, masu karɓar haraji na gari sun aika da lissafin harajin makamashi zuwa North Shore Towers da Penn South co-op a Chelsea, Manhattan. Kudaden haraji sun kai dala miliyan daya kowannensu, wanda ke wakiltar harajin man fetur da ba a biya ba wanda ya koma shekaru 20, duk da cewa duka kamfanonin biyu suna samar da makamashin kansu. Magajin gari Michael Bloomberg, Councilman David Weprin (D-Queens), sannan Councilwoman Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan), da sauran jami'an gari sun yi aiki don daidaita lissafin haraji da kuma cire harajin makamashi na gaba ga co-ops. Sannan Kakakin Majalisar Gifford Miller (D-Manhattan) yayi sharhi cewa irin waɗannan haɗin gwiwar "ya kamata a ba da lada, ba a hukunta su ba don samar da makamashin kansu".