Power is super cheap. Until you don’t have it.
“Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power..” This is a quote from a recent article in Grid Professionals Group.
Electricity demand in the United States has been relatively flat for several years but is now exploding and is expected to continue to ramp up. This is being driven by data centers, re-industrialization of US manufacturing, EV’s and electrification. Power demand is growing much faster than our additions of new generation, especially when factoring in retirements of older fossil plants. The result? Expect a dramatic increase in brownouts and blackouts.
Quoting again from the article: “Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s aging power grid.”
What can you do? You need to take responsibility for managing your own power reliability and for most that means backup generation so you can keep running even when the grid is down.
Luckily the strain on the grid has made demand response programs both more prevalent and lucrative. A backup generator, managed properly, will not only keep your operation running but can be a profit center.
To learn more about demand response and the economics of backup generators and Backup Power as a Service, visit Exergy Energy at https://exergyenergy.com