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Dec 17, 2025
Energy Strategy is Business Strategy

AI datacenters, fleet electrification, and reshoring are driving electricity demand to

levels the grid wasn’t built to handle. At the same time, extreme weather and aging

infrastructure are increasing outage risk and volatility in energy costs. Energy has

shifted from a back-of-house facilities decision to a C-suite priority tied directly to

revenue protection, profitability, and the ability to seize new growth. In this

environment, energy strategy is business strategy.

Protecting Revenue with Energy Resiliency

When power fails, revenue stops. In retail, outages translate immediately into lost

transactions, spoiled inventory, and customer churn. In manufacturing, even

sub-hour disruptions can scrap work-in-progress, damage equipment, and ripple

through supply chains for days. Hospitals, logistics hubs, food storage, and

data-driven operations face similar exposure—where downtime is not just costly but

mission-critical

A modern resiliency strategy goes beyond a standby generator. Leading operators

combine:

Protecting Revenue with Energy Resiliency

On-site generation (solar, fuel cells, generators) for diversified supply that isn’t

weather- or grid-dependent.

Battery energy storage for instantaneous ride-through, peak-shaving,

black-start capability, and load shaping

Programmable controls & EMS to prioritize critical loads, island when needed,

and orchestrate sources/loads in real time.

Segmented and tiered load design (critical, essential, deferrable) with

pre-planned curtailment to extend uptime.

Operational readiness (testing, drills, spares, fuel and parts logistics) and

cyber/physical security measures that keep assets available when the grid is

stressed.