Con Ed says it is confident the power will stay on through the extreme temperatures.

The president of the utility company broke down their strategy to stay on top of outages during the heat wave.

"We do a few things. The first is, you see it here, we establish this command post to make sure that all functions of the company are focused on the same thing. Safe and reliable operation should events occur. We have augmented our staffing considerably so we have 4,000 women and men out there in the streets - both monitoring the equipment and should events occur - jumping on it so that we can minimize any impact to our customers,” said Tim Cawley, President of Con Ed.

If you experience an outage you're asked to report it at Coned.com.