After Sandy hit, 2 million PSE&G customers lost power, and it took two weeks for service to be fully restored.
Wednesday, leadership took CBS2's Vanessa Murdock on a tour of a New Jersey substation and highlighted improvements made to withstand the next superstorm.
When the storm hit, poles snapped, massive trees uprooted from winds gusting up to 90 mph and surge drowned substations. The grid couldn't compete with Sandy. Two million PSE&G customers lost power. Ten years later, the company's vice president of electric operations, Jack Bridges, took CBS2 on a tour of the Sewaren substation to highlight changes made since that infamous October night.Sandy's surge raged from the Atlantic Ocean into the Raritan Bay, up Smith Creek, ultimately flooding the Sewaren substation with as much as 12 feet of water.
Through the Energy Strong initiative, Sewaren was the first station of 36 in flood plains to get the overhaul. "As we walk through the yard, you can see the overhead bus work and the associated equipment," Bridges said."We raised and rebuilt FEMA flood plain plus 1 foot to ensure that future events would not take the station down," Bridges said.
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