As our power sources strain to keep up with increased energy demand, microgrids are becoming an increasingly important investment. A microgrid allows a company, community, or organization to power itself without the need to rely on a traditional power grid. Power outages (both planned and unplanned), rate hikes, and environmental destruction can all be avoided by opting for clean and decentralized energy like Bloom Energy’s innovative power servers.
What Is a Microgrid?
A microgrid is a small-scale power grid. Microgrids are especially useful for grocery stores, hospitals, and data centers. These types of establishments are essential for our day-to-day lives and cannot be disrupted by a power outage. Under the right circumstances, microgrids can protect entire communities from the effects of power outages.
When you connect your home or business to a traditional power company’s services, you’re attaching yourself to the grid. Your electricity will come from a power plant that’s regulated by the government, which is often unreliable and typically powered by unsustainable sources. Switching to a self-reliant microgrid gives you the opportunity to opt out of relying on the grid and avoiding all the downsides that come with it.
Avoid Power Outages with Your Own Microgrid
Power outages are becoming more inconvenient as our reliance on electricity as a society increases. Unpredictable weather can often knock out power in whole communities for days or weeks at a time. Sometimes, power companies even have to plan power outages because they cannot keep up with the growing demand for electricity.
A microgrid can help to protect your company or organization from losing power. Even a few minutes without power can be a huge deal if you’re running life-saving medical equipment or data servers for essential operations.
Bloom Energy’s off-grid power can keep the lights on 24/7. Bloom Energy servers run on natural gas, hydrogen, or biogas fuel that is extremely reliable. Bloom systems have proven their resilience through major hurricanes, winter storms, earthquakes, and typhoons.
Going Green
Not only do microgrids enable companies to avoid outages, but they also offer an opportunity to opt for cleaner energy. For example, Bloom Energy servers release almost no fossil fuel emissions. Bloom’s servers run on biogas fuel, natural gas, or hydrogen and have an incredibly small water requirement, and don’t rely on combustion at all.
In 2022 alone, Bloom’s fuel cells prevented more than 4.7 billion gallons of water consumption and over 691 billion gallons of water withdrawal by grid electricity sources. A Bloom system can also produce 1 megawatt of power while only taking up the amount of land the size of a shipping container.
With climate change threatening the future of the planet, making the choice to switch to a greener, decentralized power source is the most responsible investment any company can make in their own future.
An Innovative, Yet Proven Energy Solution
While microgrids are an exciting new idea for any business to consider, they are also proven to work. Huge companies use microgrids to power their operations and protect their systems. Stop and Shop is a dominant grocery chain in the Northeastern United States that people rely on to feed their families. They have trusted Bloom Energy to power several of their locations in order to ensure that they can provide continuous service to customers during any type of weather.
Even the city of Hartford, Connecticut, has opted to install Bloom Energy servers to make sure that their power stays on during outages. After a hurricane caused an 11-day outage, they wanted to make sure that they had a backup plan. Since then, Bloom has protected the city from multiple outages.
Trust Bloom Energy for Decentralized Power Solutions
Bloom Energy is a leading provider of clean, reliable, and decentralized energy. Consider the benefits of having your own mini power plant for your operations. With Bloom’s energy servers, your organization can be protected from outages while making sustainable choices for the future.