What Superstorm Sandy Taught Consolidated Edison, Five Years On

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By info@greentechmedia.comOct 27, 2017, 7:37 am85 ptsTrending
At 8:12 pm on the night Superstorm Sandy hit Manhattan, the plant manager at Consolidated Edison’s East River substation, Michael Brown, was on a planning call in his fifth floor office when a light blue arc of electricity from a circuit breaker flashed in the sky. It extended from the station all the way…

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