Ask New Yorkers what they remember about Hurricane Sandy, and they’ll say the blackout. Floods cut power to most of Lower Manhattan, plunging America’s financial and cultural epicenter into total darkness.
Or rather, near-total darkness. New York University continued to buzz and glow throughout the night. The reason?
NYU runs on a microgrid, a semi-independent energy system able to generate and store its own power.
When the storm hit, NYU kept humming along. Cut off from a central utility, it continued to produce its own electricity.
