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Powering the Future: How Valley Children's Microgrid Makes Healthcare a Social Determinant of Health

By District Energy posted 10-08-2025 18:44

  

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When you think about children's hospitals, you might picture brightly colored walls, caring nurses, and state-of-the-art medical equipment. But what if the most important element isn't visible at all? What if it's the invisible energy grid quietly ensuring that life-saving care never stops, even when the lights go out everywhere else?

Valley Children's Healthcare is pioneering exactly that vision with the construction of the largest renewable energy microgrid connected to a hospital emergency system in the country. This groundbreaking project transforms energy resilience from a simple operational necessity into a powerful social determinant of health for the 1.3 million children the hospital serves across Central California.

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