Utilities Industry Solutions
Bloom Energy provides the optimal energy solutions for the utilities industry to enhance grid resiliency, achieve zero carbon power, reduce emissions, and address the need to quickly deploy reliable power resources in critical areas.
Utilities Industry Energy Challenges
Converging Pressures
Demands of our digital economy coupled with the escalating realities of extreme weather have created an unprecedented risk landscape. Utilities find themselves in an unenviable position, needing to solve for both the causes and consequences of our changing climate. Bloom Energy provides resilient power solutions to help the utilities industry mitigate these converging pressures while transitioning to a carbon-free power model.
Cascading Vulnerabilities
Over the course of the 20th century, the grid was built as a one-way value chain from fuel supply to end-user consumption. Such infrastructure design has created ‘cascading vulnerabilities’ – a failure of any component can result in disruption of service to end users. Bloom’s advanced microgrid solutions offer grid resilience and minimize these cascading risks by providing reliable power even when other grid components are compromised.
Cost of System Hardening
Grid hardening programs are underway in every region, but upgrading such a complex system is expensive, and takes years to properly execute. But escalating climate impacts remain a major threat and risk outpacing the billions of dollars utilities are spending to implement their plans. Bloom’s clean power solutions enable utilities to achieve power grid resilience without requiring lengthy overhauls or excessive costs. Our microgrid energy solutions provide cost-effective power that can quickly address power generation needs, ensuring communities have reliable and fast power during times of need—all while offering cheap power options that reduce overall operational expenses.
Utilities Industry Energy Opportunities
Decarbonized Resilience
The race to find a resilient, scalable way to decarbonize is more important now than ever before. With more than half of our electricity still generated by fossil fuel, utilities must lead a massive investment in new, clean power resources and the power generation infrastructure needed to reliably integrate them with the grid. Bloom Energy’s carbon capture technology and microgrid energy solutions help the utilities industry meet these decarbonization targets while enhancing resilient power delivery.
Accelerating Efforts
Utilities are at the forefront of bridging the gap to actualizing tomorrow’s vision of a zero-carbon future. To accelerate this shift, a collaborative approach is essential. By prioritizing carbon-free power sources, renewable power generation, and decarbonization efforts, utilities can make meaningful progress. Bloom Energy’s Resiliency as a Service (RaaS) solutions and combined heat and power technologies are specifically designed to facilitate this transition. Our integrated carbon capture systems and clean power deployment strategies further support the utilities industry in achieving its sustainability goals—ensuring it can deploy reliable, cost-effective, renewable power faster and in partnership with key stakeholders.
Distributed Paradigm Shift
We are now in a time where there are multiple options for sourcing and delivering electricity and distributed generation has completely shifted the energy paradigm. Successful distributed generation technologies at the utility scale are cost effective, dispatchable, reliable, highly efficient, and easily serviced. Bloom Energy’s utility solutions can scale microgrid solutions depending on utility needs, enabling the utilities industry to build a flexible green energy infrastructure that seamlessly integrates renewable power. Our time-to-power capability allows utilities to install and activate microgrid solutions quickly, ensuring minimal time to bring essential services online.
Utilities Industry Use Cases
With energy challenges on the rise, Bloom offers utilities a practical distributed generation solution to help strengthen the power system, de-risk business, and most importantly, provide clean, resilient power to the communities they serve.
Disaster Planning and Response
Bloom has adapted its microgrid solution to enable community continuity in times of emergencies. Our Rapid Microgrid can be deployed in a matter of days to serve critical facilities with the local, reliable power they need.
Non-wires Alternatives
Bloom’s solutions utilize the highly reliable underground gas pipeline and are considered a viable non-wires alternative that reliably reduces system constraints.Our systems can deliver clean, dispatchable power in locations where critical distribution or transmission infrastructure may be jeopardized by high demand or climate impacts, ensuring communities have continuous access to reliable power.
Resilient Local Capacity
Bloom Energy Servers can be co-located at substations or at other optimal locations identified by the utility to provide not only local capacity but also to provide grid resiliency and overall reliability in targeted remote or capacity constrained areas.
Alleviating Space Constraints
Bloom’s significant power density enables fast installation times to meet immediate demand in areas of high density or environments that are sensitive to centralized generation assets. This flexibility supports the utilities industry in achieving clean, dispatchable power without requiring large land footprints, making it ideal for urban environments or locations with limited space.
Utilities Industry FAQs
Overview of the utilities industry
The utilities industry encompasses companies and organizations that provide essential services such as electricity, natural gas, water, and sewage. This sector is responsible for delivering reliable power and managing infrastructure to ensure the efficient distribution of these resources. With the growing focus on sustainability, many companies in the utilities industry are investing in renewable power and carbon capture technologies to support a zero-carbon future and enhance grid resiliency. By leveraging advanced microgrid solutions and utility solutions, the industry is also working to increase energy reliability and promote green energy infrastructure.
Key functions of the utilities sector
The utilities sector includes various industries that provide essential public services. These typically consist of:
- Electric Power: Companies involved in power generation, transmission, and distribution to ensure the reliable delivery of electricity to homes and businesses.
- Natural Gas: Providers that deliver natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers for heating, cooking, and power generation.
- Water and Sewage: Organizations responsible for water supply, wastewater management, and sewage treatment, ensuring safe and sustainable water resources for communities.
These industries are integral to public infrastructure and the economy, playing a vital role in delivering reliable power and supporting grid resiliency in response to rising environmental challenges.
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