40-Acre Los Angeles Urban Community to be powered by Bloom Energy Servers
17 Abril 2019 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
The Alhambra, a reimagined 40-acre mixed-use urban community
located in the City of Alhambra, will be powered by fuel cells
provided by Bloom Energy, which is headquartered in Silicon
Valley.
The sleek fuel cells will generate clean, reliable electricity,
on-site at The Alhambra campus with lower CO2 emissions than the
local electrical grid, and with virtually no particulate emissions
that cause smog and respiratory diseases.
The Bloom Energy Servers were selected by The Alhambra’s
developer, The Ratkovich Company (TRC), a premier Los Angeles real
estate development firm, as part of its ongoing strategy to
transform the 40-acre former C F Braun engineering campus, located
five miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
The Alhambra campus is a LEED Gold certified, mixed-use
health-and-wellness-focused community, home to major tenants such
as County of Los Angeles, USC Keck School of Medicine, and Eastern
Los Angeles Regional Center (ELARC).
The new Bloom Energy Servers – the fourth generation of the
company’s technology – will generate up to 1 MW of power for the
campus with expansion capabilities as the campus grows, meeting
approximately 75% of its total demand. The installation is part of
an eco-friendly campus design, which has earned The Alhambra an
Energy Star score of 91.
According to the US Energy Information Administration, about 39%
of total U.S. energy is consumed by the residential and commercial
sectors. Higher efficiency electricity generation not only helps
lower costs to tenants at The Alhambra, it also reduces CO2
emissions and pollution.
Bloom Energy Servers have the highest electrical efficiency of
any commercial electric power system. They generate electricity
without combustion, and therefore without smog emissions that cause
respiratory diseases. Removing these pollutants from the air
fosters TRC’s commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of
its local community, and of air quality in Los Angeles overall.
The Bloom Energy Servers use virtually no water in normal
operation, an important consideration in drought-prone California.
By comparison, power plants supplying electricity to the California
grid consume 150 million gallons of water more per megawatt of
electricity than Bloom Energy Servers per year.
“We’re seeing an increasing interest and demand for workplaces
and communities that are powered by clean, reliable energy,” said
KR Sridhar, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Bloom Energy. “We’re proud
to support The Ratkovich Company’s efforts to reduce their carbon
footprint and improve local air quality.”
Since acquiring and redeveloping The Alhambra in 1999, TRC has
demonstrated its ongoing commitment to providing tenants and the
local community with a healthy, creative, environmentally conscious
campus that ties into its mission to improve the overall quality of
urban life. This vision has resonated with tenants, resulting in
high retention and major expansions by long-term occupants such as
USC Keck School of Medicine, County of Los Angeles, and Eastern Los
Angeles Regional Center. TRC is also signing leases with new
tenants such as California State University, Los Angeles, who are
attracted to The Alhambra’s ample green spaces and central
courtyard for socializing.
“Back in 2010, we were among the first to deploy this
extraordinary technology,” said Wayne Ratkovich, President/CEO of
TRC. “Thanks to Bloom Energy Servers, our electric bills have been
lowered significantly, as well as our carbon footprint. Now that
we’re meeting approximately 75% of our total energy demand and have
achieved an Energy Star score of 91, we hope to inspire other
communities to reduce their reliance on the grid.”
About The Ratkovich Company
The Ratkovich Company (TRC) is a Los Angeles development company
that engages in both new projects and the imaginative reuse of
existing buildings. TRC has completed, or has under development,
over 18 million square feet of commercial space in Los Angeles
County, including San Pedro Public Market, a $150 million
development on the L.A Waterfront scheduled to begin construction
in 2019; The Bloc, a 1.8 million square foot, mixed-use property at
the heart of downtown Los Angeles; The Alhambra, a 40-acre
mixed-use urban community in the city of Alhambra; and The Hercules
Campus at Playa Vista, a landmark property including the hangar
where Howard Hughes’ legendary Spruce Goose was built, and now home
to Google/YouTube and 72andSunny. TRC has won numerous awards for
its restoration of Los Angeles landmarks including the Art Deco
Wiltern Theatre and adjacent Pellissier building; the iconic
31-story 5900 Wilshire on Miracle Mile, and the Chapman Market. The
James Oviatt and Fine Arts buildings were both awarded national
landmark status after successful renovations by TRC. For more
information, visit http://www.ratkovich.com
About Bloom Energy
Bloom Energy’s mission is to make clean, reliable, and
affordable energy for everyone in the world. The Company’s product,
the Bloom Energy Server, delivers highly reliable and resilient,
‘Always-On’ electric power that is clean and sustainable. Bloom’s
customers include twenty-five of the Fortune 100 companies and
leaders in cloud services and data centers, healthcare, retail,
financial services, utilities and many other industries. For more
information, visit www.bloomenergy.com
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