Last month the firm warned that without major reinforcement, the electricity grid in Cornwall could struggle to cope with taking more power from renewable sources.
Grid architectures are designed to work around single-point failures, but in the 1989 event there were 15 major failures in a few seconds across the regional grid, and that was more than the system could cope with.
Both of those wind farms were hit by hurricane Sandy with wind speeds of up to 110 miles per hour and neither of them had any major damage and continued to provide electricity for the local grid.
Cuomo said he will end what he called the current, confusing relationship by empowering National Grid to act quickly and decisively in the event of major power outages.
These major nodes are not only critical to the nation's power-grid and telecommunications capability, but would be extremely difficult and time consuming to rebuild or repair.
Its sales were boosted by existing contracts with major companies such as Nexen and Talisman and new work with Dong Energy and National Grid, among others.