In a new report by Deloitte, 44% of businesses who responded to a national survey said they are considering microgrids, an increase of nine percentage points over last year’s survey.
In “Deloitte Resources 2020 Study,” 54% of those considering microgrids said they have critical operations that require uninterrupted power supply, said Marlene Motyka, principal, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics. Fifty-one percent said they have experienced increases in the number of outages.
The study did not pin down where the survey participants were experiencing outages. Major storms, fires and Public Safety Power Shutoffs in California are among the possible reasons, she said.
“They know they have to be resilient and more self sufficient,” she said.
Concern about resilience driving microgrids
Resilience was on the top of both residential and business customers’ interest list.
Fifty-two percent of business respondents said they’re concerned about an interruption to their electricity supply due to a cybersecurity event on the electric grid. And 37% of residential consumer respondents echoed this concern.
Residential customers showed that they know where to find resilience. More than half of these customers said they were interested in solar if combined with batteries.
“They see that if they have solar plus a battery, they can save and shore up resilience. Nearly half of residential respondents expressed a concern about outages from natural disasters or storms,” Motyka said.
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