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How Food & Beverage Industry Leaders Can Prepare for Power Outages

For businesses in any industry, power outages put operations in serious jeopardy. For the food and beverage industry, however, a power failure can mean total devastation. Blackouts and brownouts cost Americans an estimated $150 billion a year in spoiled food, lost productivity, and other costs. Restaurants, grocery stores, and wholesale distributors rely on electricity to keep the lights on, exhaust…

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What Happens When the Power Cuts Out at a Medical Facility?

For medical facilities, emergency power plans are a matter of life or death. When an outage occurs at a hospital, urgent care, or other medical facility, the effects can be life-threatening. Vital services and equipment like medical ventilators, incubators, and dialysis machines rely on electricity to function—and patients rely on them to survive. Loss of HVAC, water pressure, sterilization technology,…

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How to Survive a Winter Power Outage

We’ve been fortunate enough to have a relatively mild winter so far, but we’re not out of the woods yet. There's still another month of winter left, and Mother Nature is notorious for being unpredictable. You may remember the nor’easter that took Halloween by storm, no pun intended, back in 2011. Yes, Mother Nature may be poised to shake up…