Bloom Energy Delivers Reliable Power During Outages

From record heat waves straining transmission networks to the proliferation of violent storms and wildfires, the global energy environment in which organizations operate has become increasingly volatile, making the electric grid more fragile than ever.  

With each passing year, the stakes grow higher for modern businesses-particularly within industries like manufacturing, data processing, health care, logistics, and critical public services-that depend on being able to assure safety, productivity, and continuity of operations with reliable power.  

When the grid goes down, the consequences can be devastating: from stopped operations and lost revenue to supply chain disruptions and even threats against human life. 

Resilience Is No Longer Optional Today; Rather, It’s A Strategic Business Imperative. 

While businesses today need to meet growing expectations toward sustainability while protecting themselves from power instability, Bloom Energy helps them adapt.  

With solid oxide fuel cell technology, Bloom provides onsite, clean, highly reliable electricity that gives organizations unprecedented control over their energy future. 

The Bloom Energy servers create a layer of protection from grid volatility and make energy a source of competitive advantage rather than a point of vulnerability. 

The Growing Challenge: A Grid Under Stress 

The electric grid has long been the backbone of industrial and economic activity worldwide. But in recent years, the signs of strain have increasingly shown up in electrical grids around the world. Several global trends are accelerating this decline in grid reliability: 

• Events are becoming more frequent, and they’re also becoming more intense. 
• Aging grid infrastructure struggles under rising demand. 
• Utilities are forced into preemptive shutoffs due to wildfires and high winds. 
• High temperatures trigger peak load increases and rolling blackouts. 
• Critical electric infrastructure is becoming increasingly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats. 

These outages are both increasingly frequent and of longer duration. As such, businesses are experiencing more unplanned downtime-often at the worst possible times, such as heat waves, seasonal peaks, or major production cycles.  

For many industries, an outage lasting just a few minutes may mean millions in lost revenue, spoiled inventory, or destroyed data. 

Bloom Energy’s AlwaysON Microgrid: Power That Stays On When the Grid Goes Off 

What Bloom Energy provides is a fundamentally different way of generating power, designed for resilience, efficiency, and sustainability. 

Central to Bloom’s solution is solid oxide fuel cell technology that generates electricity on-site, right where it’s needed.  

The Bloom Energy Servers convert natural gas, biogas, or hydrogen into electricity with a clean electrochemical process, unlike diesel generators or other combustion-based traditional backup systems. 

How the technology works: 

• Fuel enters the system. 
• It reacts with oxygen over a ceramic electrolyte in a highly efficient process. 
• Electricity is produced without combustion. 

The following are the operational and environmental merits of this combustion-free process: 

• NO2, SO2, particulate matter that can form smog 
• More effective than grid generation 
• Reduce: Carbon emission 
• Quiet, modular operation 
• Instant switchover during outages 

Because Bloom’s energy servers are tied into the underground gas pipeline network, they remain operative during those extreme weather events that knock down power lines.  

Whether the disruption is caused by hurricanes, ice storms, fires, or earthquakes, Bloom-powered facilities can stay online. 

The incentives accruing to companies operating in sectors like hospitals, data centers, cold storage facilities, or logistics hubs, areas in which uptime is not just crucial but mission-critical and invaluable. 

Reliability Proven Under Real-World Conditions 

Indeed, Bloom Energy solutions have performed exceptionally well in some of the severest climate-related disasters of the last decade. 

Bloom systems have continued to operate during: 

• PSPS events related to California wildfires 
• Winter storms and grid failures in Texas 
• Hurricanes along the Gulf Coast 
• Heatwave-related rolling blackouts 
• Local grid overload events 

While grid failures can be extremely sudden and largely unannounced, with Bloom’s AlwaysON microgrid, power is continuous and operations, safety systems, and critical equipment remain online regardless of external circumstances. 

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Clean, Reliable, And Efficient: Supporting Sustainability Goals

The global push toward decarbonization has challenged corporations to reconsider their way of approaching energy strategy.  

Similarly, an increasing number of consumers, regulators, and investors urge organizations to do everything possible to reduce emissions without giving up reliability or cost control. 

Bloom Energy helps corporations achieve their goals of sustainability and resiliency together. 

Some of the environmental benefits associated with Bloom’s fuel cells include: 

• Emission of almost zero NO2 and SO2 
• No particulate pollution: 
• Lower carbon output compared to grid electricity 
• Large savings, particularly as compared to diesel backup systems. 

During 2022, Bloom Energy customers collectively: 

• More than 940,000 metric tons of carbon emissions were reduced 
• Resulted in a 99% reduction in NO2/SO2 compared to the grid power 
• Reduced reliance on conventional, fossil fuel-based grid systems 

The systems from Bloom represent some of the cleanest dispatchable energy technologies available today, with high electrical efficiency and no combustion. 

Fuel Flexibility: Future-Proofing Today’s Energy Investments 

One of the strong differentiators for the Bloom Energy platform is fuel flexibility. An organization can start off with natural gas or biogas today and transition seamlessly into either hydrogen-powered or net-zero operation as those markets evolve. Fuels that can power  

Bloom Energy Servers include, but are not limited to:  

• Natural gas,  
• Industrial waste gas,  
• Biogas,  
• Landfill gas,  
• Ethanol, and  
• Motor gasoline.  

Predictable Cost in a Volatile Energy Market  

Another area of uncertainty for business involves the price of energy. Fluctuations in worldwide supply and demand, geopolitical events, and surges in demand during peak seasons have all combined to make electricity pricing significantly more volatile.  

With Bloom Energy, organizations are able to lock in predictable, long-term energy costs, insulating them from surprise rate hikes and grid-dependent cost swings.  

Among the financial benefits are:  

• Fixed price power sale through long-term contracts  
• Protection against grid instability and demand charges  
• Reduced losses resulting from downtime or equipment failure.  
• It reduces operational risks.  
• More accurate long-term budgeting  

Organizations can also deploy Bloom Energy without major upfront capital thanks to flexible financing and turnkey deployment options that enable them to shift from a capital expenditure model to a predictable operating expense model.  

Modular Architecture: Ensuring Power Never Stops  

Bloom’s technology is designed to operate continuously. The energy servers are modular, meaning individual units can be serviced without having to shut down the entire system. This architecture delivers:  

• Near-zero maintenance downtime  
• Continuous Power Production  
• High level of reliability and redundancy  
• Scalable capacity to meet increasing business needs  

Whether a business requires a few hundred kilowatts or several megawatts, Bloom’s systems can expand seamlessly.  

Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity  

As climate-related pressures intensify, and drive up stress on traditional infrastructure, resilience will be a defining competitive advantage for businesses around the world.  

Bloom Energy empowers organizations to:  

• Remain operational in the event of a grid failure  
• Meet stringent emissions and sustainability goals  
• Stabilize long-term power costs  
• Prepare for a hydrogen-powered future  
• Reduce reliance on fragile centralized infrastructure  

Bloom Energy empowers corporations to convert an unpredictable energy landscape into a source of growth, agility, and leadership by providing on-site, always reliable, non-combustion electricity directly to mission-critical facilities  

The Future of Energy 

A Smarter Energy Future Starts Now. The future belongs to businesses that can adapt to change, especially when it comes to energy.  

Bloom Energy’s AlwaysON microgrid and solid oxide fuel cell solutions provide a pathway to clean, reliable, and cost-stable power in a world where grid uncertainty is the new normal.  

Whether driven by extreme weather, rising energy prices, or the growing need for sustainability, companies powered by Bloom Energy operate with confidence.  

Better prepared, more resilient, and more in tune with the energy systems of tomorrow a fast-changing world, Bloom Energy doesn’t just keep the lights on; it powers businesses to thrive.