If you have work that can be destroyed by a power outage you should plan accordingly. Power outages are a normal thing and can happen at any time, especially in areas with earthquake and fire risks. Not preparing is foolish.
What 4th option are you criticising? Unless you're saying that if they don't immediately throw up their hands, try to do nothing, and go home when the power goes out, they're not "accepting the consequences"?
I cannot recall a single power outage in my home city that lasted longer than ~three hours. And even those "couple hours" outages are extremely rare, much less than once a year I would wager.
According to the statistics, the expected unavailability in my country is around 0.002 - 0.003 %. That's hardly something I would describe as a "normal thing" that "can happen at any time". That's a really rare thing.
The "SAIDI" value here is under 15 minutes. Meanwhile the median SAIDI of the US is ~1.5 hours. That still doesn't sound like a common thing.
> Tesla factory unlikely to lose power even if most of Fremont does because of agreement with PG&E
https://twitter.com/PBRStreetGang7/status/118178393541343641...
( disclaimer: might be usual twitter humbug https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/the-crowd-sourced-so... )
Who's doing the inspections, who gets contracted to clear brush, who gets power, who doesn't, etc.
It's kinda like MUNI, just not quite there, but I don't doubt Sacramento can get them to EDELCA.
To me, there feels like a big difference between a reliability SLA and an exemption from what is supposedly a vital emergency shutdown.
I mean, I'm used to IT in general, and security in particular, being treated as a cost hole and given as skimpy as budget as possible and then some until something breaks. But at least that's more intangible, and I guess from a cold hold MBA point of view it's not as if most places are really punished that hard for security breaches unfortunately. But power loss and having valuable work/material lost every year seems like it should be more tangible.
It's hard to imagine a better advertising campaign for those products.
What ever happened with Bloom Energy? they don’t get much press. https://www.bloomenergy.com/
Not saying there aren’t other options, just the one most businesses have opted for, and has the best ‘vendor’ support (plenty of fuel companies to deliver, rental agencies to arrange the delivery, and companies that Veratis that setup the building side needs)
I’m merely talking about situations where everything is fine except for the occasional brownout or blackout.
We are trying to move towards greener electricity. Wouldn’t it make sense for parts of California, for example, to generate some of that electricity locally?
Sadly you need to plan for these well in advance and be willing to sink significant resources.
Possibly this is a case of California climate biting them. A lot of the big research universities in the Northeast have steam plants, originally for heat, but often with cogen facilities as well. Usually not much, a meg or two, but it is something.