Lost Food and Extra Costs

Nights got too cold for our one year old. Had to get a hotel as the electricity needed to regulate the gas furnace was turned off.

A lot of spoiled food.

People with disabilities and chronic illnesses

People with disabilities and chronic health conditions requiring access to electricity need a lot of advance warning, and in some cases assistance planning for outages. These measures need to be implemented BEFORE an electricity emergency, and should have a thorough preparatory system in place by the electricity provider. I have insulin-dependent diabetes, and insulin requires refrigeration. If I were without working insulin, I would die within 24 hours. If my electricity goes out, my insulin could spoil very quickly, as well. Insulin is also a very expensive resource (even with recently implemented price controls) and health insurers are resistant to…

Support The proposed MICROGRID in Superior Colorado

My small business provides consulting and development of net zero energy housing, commercial buildings and planned development communities.Over the past three years my small business has land banked a two small parcels of land in the heart of the former Marshall Fire also known as Original Town Superior Colorado. I have created a collaborative team that are unified in its approach to developing a microgrid in the Superior location described above. Our collaborative team intends to demonstrate the feasibility of small to large scale microgrid(s) for advancing community development while testing this small scale approach for addressing the lack of…

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