Disaster Recovery
Yet another application for remote on-site generation is in aiding in the initial recovery from natural disasters through the provision of temporary on-site generation. This was readily apparent in the Hurricane Katrina disaster of August 2005, in which flooded municipal building and hospitals were without power since their back-up generators were in the basement of these structures. SKYRON’s turbines, in a mobile form factor, could be provided to FEMA, the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, and other relief organizations for deployment to global locations of disaster to provide temporary power until local grid service becomes available.
One of the challenges in re-building war-torn regions is the re-construction of infrastructure facilities such as schools, hospitals, sanitation, and urban services. Common to all of these is the utility grid, one of the more difficult to re-establish. The distributed generation capability of SKYRON’s turbines allows them to be placed in multiple population centers for the production of critical electric needs. While not intended to replace the grid, SKYRON’s turbines can be placed rapidly to help the population while the larger infrastructure re-construction projects are underway.