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Resilience

Resilience is not a luxury. It is a cost-avoidance measure.

The question is not what backup power costs. It is what an hour of downtime costs you — and on the Borderland, you are going to find out several times a summer whether you have planned for it or not.

One outage during a heat event can cost more than the system that would have prevented it.

Spoiled inventory. Idled crews still on the clock. A production line restarted cold. Servers brought back by hand. Sensitive equipment cycled hard. A campus sent home for the day. None of it appears on your utility bill, which is exactly why it goes unbudgeted.

We start by putting a number on it. What does one hour down actually cost your operation? Once that number exists, sizing backup power stops being a philosophical debate and becomes arithmetic.

Borderland outage log

El Paso Electric service territory · live

Jul 27Multiple outages during 104–106°F heat1,000+
Jul 1932 outages, Doña Ana County to San Elizario2,884
Jul 14El Paso International Airport, partial terminal—
Jul 583 outages, storms and lightning, Borderland-wide11,129

Customers affected, per El Paso Electric outage reporting. Four events in three weeks. We track every one.

The utility is making our argument for us

In February 2026, El Paso Electric began paying to put batteries on customer property.

Through its Residential Distributed Energy Storage Pilot Program, EPE partnered with Base Power to bring up to 10 MW of customer-sited storage online before the 2026 summer peak — because it is faster and cheaper than building new generation or transmission. EPE's own CEO has described distributed storage as an increasingly important tool for utilities facing load growth, extreme weather, and infrastructure constraints.

When your utility concludes that batteries on your side of the meter are the cost-effective answer to a strained grid, the question is no longer whether distributed storage works here. It is who controls yours, and whether your facility is included. That pilot is residential and Texas-only. Your business is not covered by it.

Cold storage & food serviceProduct loss begins within hours. Recovery means documentation, disposal, and replacement at spot pricing.
Manufacturing & logisticsLabor keeps accruing while throughput stops. Restart and requalification often costs more than the outage itself.
Schools & public facilitiesLost instructional days, cafeteria inventory, server rooms, and buildings that become unsafe once cooling stops.
Medical & laboratoryRefrigerated inventory, imaging equipment, and continuity-of-care obligations that do not pause for weather.

We size the answer to the load that actually matters — batteries, generators, UPS, or a combination — and we tell you which one is cheapest for the outcome you need. Start with a downtime assessment.

What does an hour of downtime cost you?

We'll help you put a number on it, then size backup power to the answer.

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