Kaiser Permanente set an ambitious goal to be carbon neutral in 2020 (and achieved it) and carbon positive in 2025.One of the ways the company intends to achieve that goal is by
The combination of solar arrays and battery storage onsite can provide power to the critical care load to the facility potentially indefinitely. That redundancy provides increased resiliency during a rare catastrophic event,
This will be the first long-duration battery energy storage deployment at a hospital, and the first to demonstrate clean energy as part of the primary life-safety and critical loads backup power. Kaiser Ontario Medical
The battery energy storage projects will be located at six of the company''s existing solar projects in the state. The projects include a 63MW at Blythe 110 Solar Energy Center, a 115MW at Blythe II Solar Energy Center, a
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Kaiser Permanente’s Richmond Medical Center was the first hospital in California to implement a microgrid that connects renewable energy and battery storage to a pre-existing, diesel-fueled backup power system in a hospital — as a result, the center stands to save an additional 2.63 MWh of energy per year, resulting in annual savings of $394,000.
Currently, Kaiser Permanente hosts solar panels at nearly 50 California sites, and has more than 300 electric-vehicle charging stations at 37 locations throughout the state. Over the past 10 years, Kaiser Permanente has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 29 percent, tracking toward its goal of becoming carbon neutral in 2020.
In this effort, Kaiser Permanente has been focusing on integrating more on-site energy to reduce energy costs, increase facility resiliency, and support its sustainability goals.
