Between 2007 and 2010, during my tenure as an engineer and energy economist at M+NLB, I helped to found a distributed energy program with Kaiser Permanente. We worked with sites throughout California and were one of the first to work with Bloom Energy (a Silicon Valley Fuel Cell company). When I left M+NLB in 2010 we had contracted for approximately 15MW in renewable energy projects. I just received word that Kaiser has continued our work and has announced a remarkable step towards dealing with climate change. Go KP! And to get a handle on the scale we’re talking about – that’s 223 MegaWatts of Renewable Energy, equivalent to powering 82,000 US Homes!
Official Press Release: Kaiser Permanente