SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Bloom Energy is helping Partners HealthCare, one of the nation’s leading
integrated health systems, founded by Massachusetts General Hospital and
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to boost its readiness for future winter
storms with new on-site, fuel cell-based electric power systems.
Massachusetts suffered more than 100 outages to its electric power grid
in 2017, lasting 55 hours in total, according to the Eaton Blackout
Tracker. In excess of 630,000 people were affected by the outages, more
than a third of which were caused by bad weather and falling trees.
Following a recent review of the vulnerability of its facilities to
storms, floods and other outages, Partners made the decision to continue
increasing reliability at its facilities’ by deploying 4.1 megawatts of
fuel cell-based energy systems from Bloom Energy at locations throughout
Massachusetts.
Bloom Energy Servers deliver highly-reliable, constant electric power.
The Servers can be configured to enable critical operations to continue
even if the electrical grid fails in the event of a storm or an
accidental outage. They will provide cheaper electricity 24 hours per
day, seven days per week, thereby more than paying for themselves,
helping Partners keep its electricity cost low and predictable over a
15-year period.
Unlike traditional sources of on-site power generation, Bloom Energy
Servers generate electricity without combustion, and therefore without
sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide or particulate emissions that cause
smog and respiratory diseases. Removing these pollutants from the air
helps underpin Partners’ commitment to improving the health and
wellbeing of its local community.
The Bloom systems will also reduce CO2 emissions by more than 20%
relative to the average for local grid power. The systems use virtually
no water in normal operation. By comparison, fossil-based power plants
consume 150 million gallons of water more than Bloom Energy Servers to
produce one megawatt for a year.
Partners intends to deploy the new systems at its corporate headquarters
in Somerville where more than 4,500 employees from administrative
departments are based. They will also be deployed at the Spaulding
Rehabilitation Hospital, North Shore Medical Center, and at its 65,000
square foot Marlborough data center. Bloom Energy Servers proved a good
fit for Partners’ urban and space-constrained locations, as they are 125
times more space-efficient than solar panels per kilowatt generated.
“Our hospitals and medical centers care for more than 1.5 million
patients each year. Many of our facilities are open 24 hours per day,
365 days per year, so reliable electricity is both crucial to our
operations, and one of our largest utility costs,” said Dennis
Villanueva, Senior Manager of Energy & Sustainability at Partners. “With
the Bloom systems, we can save money, improve our resiliency to outages,
and virtually eliminate particulate pollutants, responsible for
cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases in our community.”
“Bloom Energy offers tailored solutions that help our customers meet
their individual power needs, whether that is for more sustainable,
lower cost, or more resilient electric power,” said KR Sridhar, Founder,
CEO and Chairman of Bloom Energy. “We’re proud to be providing clean,
reliable, affordable electricity to Partners so that its incredible
staff and researchers can focus on doing what they do best: deliver
world-class healthcare to the residents of Massachusetts.”
About Bloom Energy
Bloom Energy’s mission is to make clean, reliable, and affordable energy
for everyone in the world. The Company’s product, the Bloom Energy
Server, is capable of delivering highly reliable, uninterrupted, 24x7
constant electric power that is clean and sustainable. Bloom’s customers
include twenty-five of the Fortune 100 companies and leaders in
manufacturing, high-tech, healthcare, retail and other industries. For
more information, visit www.bloomenergy.com.
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