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John F. Miksad, who is the senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, said that the company is expected to spend $100 million this year toward reducing the risk of stray voltage. After 5 days, a dog was electrocuted on a patch of concrete in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Con Ed had continued to supply electricity to a nonexistent streetlight. Later, Mr. Vallone, a Queens Democrat, accused Con Ed for being slow to act. Consolidated Edison, responding to testing requirements imposed after a woman was electrocuted, found 1,214 instances of stray voltage during a yearlong examination of electrical equipment on city streets, officials disclosed at City Council.  A few days later a dog was also electrocuted on a patch of concrete in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Con Ed had continued to supply electricity to a nonexistent streetlight. Con Ed and the city are installing 5,000 isolation transformers, devices that prevent current from flowing through a streetlight if the wiring to the light fails. 