Welcome to Leva Energy’s new blog and thanks for reading. As a new entrant in a well-established market of century-old companies mostly named after their founders who died decades ago, we decided to move forward with our blog even though we felt the average industrial boiler operator might not be the blog-reading type. But, our audience needs to be larger. The topics, issues and current events that Leva intends to write about in our blog will go beyond the features, benefits and advantages of our product. In the energy market, new leaders need to emerge for cost-effective and market-ready innovation to occur.
That brings me to our topic du jour. I could have simplified my earlier sentence to read “…for innovation to occur,” but I intentionally added “cost-effective” and “market-ready.” Why? Because we’ve been here before. The promise of distributed generation providing a cost-effective, cleaner and smarter approach to power generation was hyped decades ago. On paper, it made a lot of sense. Generate power locally and it’ll save you money, Mother Nature will thank you, and you’ll never have another black out. Well, back then, the market didn’t agree. Companies rushed to market with innovative technology, but failed to overcome the two central hurdles to a successful DG solution. Reliability and Cost.
DG companies compete against the grid. It doesn’t matter what technology you offer. A potential customer choosing to do nothing instead of adopting a DG solution is a win for the utility company. What will motivate a customer to choose DG over the grid is providing a solution that will lower their electricity bills, no matter where they are located, and will run like a Maytag washing machine. Install it and forget about it.
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