“We’re interrupting your mission-critical energy service to provide you with significant inconvenience and potential danger to operations. Have a nice day.”
Well, that’s a message one never wants to receive ever, but it’s particularly threatening if you are a system operator at a hospital, university, military base or giant data server center. The breakdown is not nice—or an option.
Three such mission critical facilities in Pennsylvania recently underwent extensive system reviews, overhauls and expansions on the way to certifications to ensure they are protected against electric service interruptions in the future. And EnergyTech will host them at 2 p.m. ET Tuesday, December 14 in a webinar to learn about their respective journeys to energy resiliency and sustainability.
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Lafayette College and Chatham University each worked with the Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) to review, renew and strengthen their on-site protections against the threat of power interruptions. Each earned high-level certification under GBCI’s Performance Excellence in Electricity Renewal (PEER) rating system.
The PEER rating recognizes power grid improvements and rewards power users who enhance grid reliability, resilience and sustainability. This era’s unrelenting series of extreme weather events—from the Texas freeze-out during the winter to Hurricane Ida most recently—highlights the dangers faced by at mission critical facilities.
EnergyTech Senior Editor Rod Walton will moderate this panel discussion, in which the presenters will discuss the business decisions and expected financial rewards that led them invest in these major overhauls. The group will detail grid improvements made at each of the plants to bolster their power infrastructures and protect against interruptions.
The webcast will feature details specific to each site, from distribution infrastructure to renewables and district heating. The lessons learned should be valuable to energy, facility and plant managers at mission critical facilities, including those interested in microgrids, on-site renewable power and combined heat and power (CHP). And it should prove valuable to anyone interested in the future of backup power, sustainability and grid resiliency.
The webcast is free and will be open for registration soon. Click here to register.
Making Sustainability, Efficiency and Resiliency the Keystones of your Mission Critical Energy Goals
2 p.m. ET Tuesday, December 14 at EnergyTech.com
Speakers:
Katherine Hammack, Director of Special Projects, GBCI
Kevin Kanoff, Campus Energy Engineer, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Mary Whitney, Sustainability Director, Chatham University
Moderator: Rod Walton, Senior Editor, EnergyTech
