Jan 31 2011
Kaiser Permanente, a company known for its commitment to serve the health care of the communities, declared that it has entered into an accord with Bloom Energy, a fuel cell energy servers manufacturing company, to erect fuel-cell generators at its seven facilities in California as part of its program to support renewable energy sources.
Kaiser Permanente has entered into a power purchase agreement with Bloom Energy, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, to buy the power. The fuel-cell power is generated utilizing directed biogas deduced from manure or landfills. Bloom Energy will install its fuel-cell power generators known as Bloom Boxes at seven facilities of Kaiser Permanente in California. The power generators will generate around four MW of clean power utilizing the solid oxide fuel-cells and meet nearly 34% of the power requirement of the installed locations. Earlier, last year the company had declared its intentions to install 15 MW solar power for supplying clean energy to its 15 facilities located in the state by the end of 2011.
By practicing sustainable green energy efforts of the company saves above $10 million every year and the company is pledged to reduce its reliance on fossil fuel in the next 10 years. It plans to utilize green energy conserving practices in its proposed buildings that may occupy around 6.7 million square feet area in the next seven years.
Source: http://www.kaiserpermanente.org