Surprises: Great for parties, terrible for business.
In all seriousness, an unanticipated expense or a broken piece of machinery can be a real source of stress—if not outright despair—in the workplace. It only makes sense to take whatever steps you can to protect yourself against unexpected events that might negatively affect your workplace.
These steps can be especially impactful when it comes to the energy you need to power your daily operations. Our power sources are an essential, non-negotiable part of the way we live our lives and run our businesses. When something goes wrong, real problems are unavoidable. That’s why it’s a no-brainer to take advantage of opportunities to improve the reliability of our energy systems whenever they arise.
Catalyst Power’s renewable energy services, including Connected Microgrid solutions and Community Solar, allow you to do precisely this. (The rest of our website has a lot more details on each of these programs, but for the moment, we’ll provide a quick summary: A Connected Microgrid brings solar energy production right to your property with an on-site solar array built and operated by Catalyst Power, while Community Solar subscribes you to a solar farm in your area and allows you to reap the benefits of the renewable energy the selected farm adds to the larger power grid.)
Either way, you’ll be adding a robust new layer of reliability to your day-to-day operations. And by bringing this additional stability to the financial, operational, and environmental aspects of your power supply, you’ll be galvanizing your business against quite a few unpleasant surprises.
Here’s how you can expect to enjoy the benefits of a more reliable energy system when you implement one of Catalyst Power’s solar power solutions.
- Financial Reliability
Given the spending increases you’ve almost certainly seen in your energy bills this year, it’s not going to be a surprise to hear that the costs of power from traditional sources can be wildly unpredictable. Events that are entirely out of our control (more on that later) can cause hefty swings in our expenditures on energy that comes from fossil fuels.
By implementing one of Catalyst Power’s solutions, you’ll lock in energy rates that are guaranteed for the duration of your contract. You can also expect them to be lower than the prices you’re currently paying, so you’ll be saving money and establishing more predictable spending patterns all at once.
In other words, it’s a perfect opportunity to stabilize each month’s energy spending by shifting a portion of your power usage from the traditional power grid, along with its alway-changing rates, to solar energy at a guaranteed price. Bringing an extra bit of financial predictability to your business can go a long way.
- Functional Reliability
We all expect to have access to a consistent flow of power whenever we need it. But recent events across the country have brought new attention to the ways our energy systems can fail, highlighting the vulnerabilities that individuals and businesses face when relying solely on the traditional power grid. One way to address this significant and growing issue? Energy diversification.
The term refers to the addition of new power sources to ensure your overall energy supply is coming from more than one provider. Taking steps toward energy diversification directly improves your ability to avoid a loss of power. In the simplest terms, you have another energy source to draw from when the first one experiences failure. Adding a new energy source to your operations will make a real impact on your ability to avoid costly and inconvenient outages—especially when the additional source is providing renewable power that can be produced in virtually any location.
Catalyst Power can help you establish that new source, bringing energy production much closer to home. A Connected Microgrid allows you to generate solar power right on your property, meaning you’ll be able to avoid the pains of power loss due to an outage on the larger grid.
Find out more about outage prevention during periods of high demand.
- Environmental Reliability
Full transparency: The most accurate title for this headline would be something like, “Cultural-infrastructural-geopolitical reliability”. But that’s too many hyphens for one headline.
Anyway, environmental considerations are absolutely still a central factor here—we certainly weren’t trying to mislead you. (We would never!) As our society collectively navigates a changing relationship with the environment around us, implementing a source of renewable energy improves your ability to maintain the normal operations you anticipate on a daily basis.
Connecting to renewables will allow your company to:
- Prepare for shifting customer expectations. Consumers are increasingly making choices to support businesses that are conscious of their impact on the climate. Demonstrating commitment to reducing your environmental footprint by implementing a source of renewable energy will go a long way in retaining your climate-conscious customers and attracting new ones.
- Position your business to succeed in a world powered by renewables. Policy choices, cost considerations, and an existential need to address the climate crisis are all leading us to rely more heavily on clean energy. A society-wide transition to renewables is a matter of when, not if. By beginning the process now, you’ll put yourself ahead of the curve and avoid the headaches of trying to catch up later.
- Protect yourself against unpredictable oil markets. This point is closely related to the opportunities for financial stability we mentioned earlier. As long as the overwhelming majority of global oil production takes place in a handful of countries, we’re all beholden to the effects of a change in oil supply from any of those countries. (Current events provide a fitting and unfortunate example. Even though the U.S. receives very little oil directly from Russia, the decreased availability of Russian oil since the country’s invasion of Ukraine has put oil from all other sources in higher demand. The end result: Higher prices and less availability all around the world.) Renewables bring production much closer to home and give you more control over the way your energy is sourced.
See how to develop a more environmentally-conscious future for your business.
Running a business requires a lot of time and effort—don’t leave yourself vulnerable to unexpected (and expensive) power issues along the way. Catalyst Power can help you identify the right solution to improve your energy reliability today!
