Mr Sustainable

New business models and grid management models can pay for the emergency power capacity –today.

This will only get easier and cheaper as technology progresses.

During SuperStorm Sandy, we learned that we need distributed emergency power for both traditional and new needs:  

• Traditional: water pumping, sewage treatment, communications infrastructure, emergency shelters, fire & police, etc.
• New: Supermarkets, restaurants, food distribution centers, gas stations, etc — highly distributed.

The fragility of the electric grid was highlighted.  Solar, by providing energy generation at many places around the state (e.g. right on the roof top of your house or business) means you are not at the whim of the grid. 

The cost of climate change, is being felt now, not in the future.  Large storms like SuperStorm Sandy drive home the point that we cannot sit back and let the future happen to us: we must plan now for our future, and in terms of electricity generation this means a renewable energy transition now.

There are many advantages of distributed generation.  Distributed generation strengthens our electric system and provides greater reliability, especially during natural disasters.

Mr Sustainable, Dante DiPirro, will be speaking on rebuilding sustainably after Superstorm Sandy.  Since we have to rebuild anyway as a result of the catastrophe, we have an opportunity to do it right!  The event will be held on Monday, May 13, 2013 at 7PM at the Monmouth County Library – headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan, NJ.  The event is open to the public.