The massive blackouts that blanketed California in October cut power to more than 100,000 businesses. Hospital chains Sutter Health and Adventist Health were forced to cancel procedures and close facilities. Some Trader Joe’s and other supermarkets shuttered for days....
It is inconceivable that a child born today can experience a basic, decent lifestyle without access to adequate electricity. Yet, almost a century and a half after the invention of the electric grid, over 1 billion people on the planet are without access to...
1. How do power grids work? Utilities generate electricity at power plants, and then distribute it to our homes and businesses over thousands of miles of wires. These networks comprise our power distribution grids, or what we simply call the grid. Once created,...
Frequent power outages are becoming an unfortunate norm for U.S. businesses. A 2018 survey found that one in four companies experience a power outage at least once a month. These outages are not mild inconveniences – the costs are quickly rising to be board room-level...
Business Resiliency Protect Your Business from Planned and Unplanned Power Outages with Microgrid Solutions Advanced Microgrid Solutions for Reliable Electricity Bloom’s fuel cell platform can be configured as a microgrid that protects against power grid outages and...
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How are twenty-first century hospitals achieving next-level patient care? According to the industry’s premier event, the ASHE Annual Conference and Technical Exhibition, trailblazing healthcare facilities cement their leadership in three key areas: technology and...
How would you keep your business running if you had no electricity for five days or more? That’s a question every California business leader should be thinking about after the first Public Safety Power Shutoff of the year. Earlier this month, California’s largest...
What role should utilities play when it comes to microgrids? That was the question posed by Microgrid Knowledge editor-in-chief, Elisa Wood to an expert panel at the recent Microgrid 2019 Conference in San Diego. The timing and the location of the discussion were apt....
It has been a year of many shocking and extreme weather events across the USA: bomb cyclones, hurricanes and wildfires have wreaked havoc from Florida to California. Despite the massive toll of these catastrophic events, one severe lightning storm in Texas in...
Are microgrids creating energy ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’? Does the trend towards decentralized electricity generation threaten the stability of the centralized grid itself? What’s the value of a microgrid anyway? These were some of the questions Greentech Media editor...
