30 Oct Keeping The Lights On Through Storms and Fires
There have been more than 2,500 major power outages – that’s an outage affecting more than 50,000 homes or businesses – since the beginning of this century. Most certainly there have been tens of thousands more minor outages: think your block and the ones surrounding you. How many of us have seen the other side of the street with the lights on, and ours off, for hours to days?
In all more than 200 million customers have sat in the dark from weather related disruptions over the past 20 years. And most agree that, without enormous investment, it’s not going to get any better soon.
Most of today’s grid was built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 50-year life expectancy. So updates are in order. However, about two-thirds of Americans obtain their electricity through investor-owned utilities, so there is a natural give and take by these companies to provide service to its customers, but also profits to its investors.
Since most power outages are the result of extreme weather events, one solution is to harden the grid by burying electric power lines, keeping them away from storms and fires. But that’s going to take uncertain levels of time, money, and commitment.
Another – available today to millions of homeowners – is to tap into a resource that by-and-large is already underground, and that’s the vast network of pipes and lines of natural gas. Lose power, and natural gas can be used to power increasingly popular backyard generators.
But there’s an even better, total home solution: tap the lines to power an E|ONE, our private home generation appliance, that provides electric power AND space and water heat, on demand, on or off the grid.
The E|ONE is such a solution – it’s really leading the way – and our E|TWO will provide even more power for estate homes and light commercial enterprises.
While lights are on over 99 percent of the time, sudden outages are always in the back of our minds. Learn more about how outr products can bring you peace of mind by visiting the page for the E|ONE.