Today, 24×7 electric power is a basic necessity – powering everything from our homes, to our businesses, to our transportation systems. But in a post-climate change world, access to reliable power is becoming increasingly uncertain. From wildfire safety power shut offs on the West Coast to nor’easters and severe winter storms on the East Coast, climate-driven blackouts are becoming the ‘new normal.’ These events are proving to be the canary in the coal mine, causing a shift in thinking from “the cost of power” to “the cost of not having power.”
Video Synopsis
What’s a day without power?
Video Length: 2:11
Talking Points:
- A Day Without Power
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Commentator:
A day without power is hard to imagine. It’s a super resource, a foundational need in addition to supporting our everyday livelihoods. Electricity keeps hospitals running, campus is open. Data centers online. Supermarkets serving neighbors. Power provides safety during natural disasters, allows us to stay connected locally, globally, and there are a lot of us. In this decade alone, the global population has grown by 800 million. No one else is up? Global carbon emissions by 1.5 billion tons. That’s equivalent to 318 million vehicles driven in one year. There’s more, power outages tallied to 3,500 in one year. In the US alone, these are big numbers. As the world grows, the demand for energy does too, causing more carbon emissions, climate change, natural disasters, further stressing the aging grid. So more power outages, costing billions of dollars every year. That’s expensive to governments, businesses, and communities. The point you have to think about power the same way you would think about cyber security, preventing an outage is essential to your business.
When it’s too late, it’s too late. If the grid can’t cope with today, you need a solution for tomorrow. And Bloom Energy has one. Yep. We’ve designed always on microgrids that provide clean, resilient, cost effective energy. This is a big deal. Know what a microgrid is? A localized grid that’s always on. A safe haven of power. It’s reliable. Onsite power, even when the grid is down. It’s resilient powers through typhoons, hurricanes, blizzards, and more. It’s always on. Keeps powering businesses, emergency services and communities where it matters most. You’re smart, you get it. Your business needs reliable power. Heck, the world needs it. Not sometimes, not until there’s an outage. Always. Always on power from Bloom Energy.