Reliable, affordable, and sustainable power matters to Peninsula Regional Medical Center (PRMC). With 3,300 physicians and staff supporting 500,000 patients annually, the hospital has been the primary healthcare provider for Maryland’s Eastern shore since 1897 and is the only trauma center on the Delmarva Peninsula. For trauma patients, the nearest alternative is over 100 miles away in Baltimore. Yet the facility’s coastal location in Salisbury, Maryland, makes it vulnerable to outages caused by hurricanes and other storms. Thanks to grants from the Maryland Energy Administration and PEPCO’s EmPOWER program, PRMC was able to contract Unison Energy to implement a microgrid based on a combined heat and power (CHP) system. The resulting system, which is designed, built, owned, an

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