How NYC Lights Up More Than 1,000,000 Buildings - NYC Revealed

Keeping the lights on in New York City is no easy task. New Yorkers demand billions of watts of electricity per day, much more than the city itself can produce. As New York moves towards a greener future, generating this vast amount of electricity will require rethinking how the city generates its energy.

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[radude]

I love this narrator. It gives me early 2000s history channel vibes!

[Matthew_Does_To_Many_Things]

Nuclear power plants are good! We need them. The should open that shut down one up.

[corpsiecorpsie_the_original]

When will NYC fix its light pollution problem?

[Birdswithteeth]

You guys the people I hear when I pump my gas?

[tayzonday]

It would take 200 million people peddling on exercise bikes nonstop to power the 8.8 million residents of New York City.

[Genesis-]

Too bad theyre shutting down indian point. Nuclear is the cleanest, safest, most efficient power source until fusion reactors are feasible

[devinlin]

can you guys do a series on how the MTA subway system works? like inside the control room and everything

[kaymish]

Old powerplants like Indian point..."
Indian point with 20 years left of designed operation life left :|

New York: "we need to decarbonise our electricity grid."
Shuts down biggest source of carbon free electricity.
Carbon emissions go up.
New York :o shocked pickachu face

[paranoidz]

I appreciate this series, which makes me appreciate stuff i took for granted! Its a testament to their NYC flawless work that we never realise how smooth water/electricity is here

[Viivek]

How does shutting down Indian point working out for newyork? That 1000 megawatt of clean energy has been replaced by fossil fuel. Gotta love "environmentalists". 👏

[EBProductions]

Nuclear?? How can anyone be serious about clean energy without nuclear

[zandercruz]

1-2 nuclear power plants would take care of all your needs.

[DJmcRUSH]

I still believe modern nuclear power stations is the way to go. New systems are safer than ever, with nearly to waste.

[jerrydellasala]

As someone who lived through three major blackouts in NYC (plus the one on 9/11 when I didn't lose power even though I lived a mile from WTC and neighboring buildings went dark), I never take electricity for granted! Especially since I was living on the 20th Floor during the last one and had to walk up to my dark apartment.

[Raining]

I live in NYC. I can confirm that the source of our electricity is simply a hamster on a wheel.

[Spacedog]

Closing down Indian Point alone more than wiped out all the wind and solar gains in the state. Nuclear is the only clean and reliable way to power a big metropolitan grid like this, those pitiful few kw of solar on that rooftop are just window dressing for the fossil fuels that do the real work.

[patentexperts]

Solar and wind can not replace all fossil fuels electric production, Hydro and Nuclear are the two best providers of clean and low cost power.
ALSO: funny to hear that even after 100 years that NY City relies heavily on the Niagara Power Plant.

[paulstring]

Sounds like they need to start building a new, state-of-the-art nuclear plant

[stillthakoolest]

Renewables will need a fossil fuel backup until grid energy storage is fully realized. New nuclear is the best way forward.

[ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle]

I know Paris is called the "city of lights" but NYC will forever to me be more fit for that name.