When Hurricane Sandy hit New York in 2012, most of lower Manhattan went dark, and it was almost two weeks before most of the power was restored. But in one building in Greenwich Village, the lights stayed on and the heat kept working (and the building?s population doubled). That?s because, as University of Wisconsin engineering professor Thomas Jahns explained, that building had ?its own miniature version of a utility grid?: a microgrid.
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