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- ↑ "National Grid Buffalo". callmepower.com. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
- ↑ "REPORT OF NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORPORATION FOR THE QUARTER ENDED September 30, 2019". Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation. October 2019. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
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