Collective Energy

Energy resilience for rural healthcare

Collective Energy helps rural hospitals, clinics, and community health centers strengthen energy resilience and reduce operating costs through solar and battery-storage microgrids. Their work is focused on keeping essential healthcare services running during power outages, grid disruptions, and disasters.

Rural healthcare focus: Energy resilience | Disaster preparedness | Operational sustainability

How Collective Energy supports rural providers

Collective Energy works with healthcare organizations to design, finance, and deploy solar and battery storage microgrid systems built to support reliable power and long-term sustainability. Their services include feasibility assessments, project development, grant and incentive support, installation, and ongoing operational maintenance.

Their solutions are designed to help rural facilities:

• Maintain critical services during outages and emergencies
• Reduce energy costs and improve budget stability
• Support medical equipment, refrigeration, and IT infrastructure
• Strengthen preparedness for disasters and grid instability

 Rural challenges this work addresses

Rural hospitals and clinics often face infrastructure and financial pressures that make energy resilience harder to achieve. Collective Energy helps address challenges:

• Power outages and grid instability that can interrupt patient care
• High energy costs that strain already tight operating budgets
• Limited infrastructure investment in smaller facilities
• Disaster vulnerability in remote communities
• Lack of resilient backup power for critical medical services

 Built for rural healthcare realities

Collective Energy structures projects with the realities of rural healthcare in mind. Their systems are scalable, cost-effective, and engineered to support critical healthcare loads. They also work to identify grants, tax incentives, and philanthropic funding opportunities that can help reduce the need for major upfront capital investment.

This approach helps rural providers improve resilience while protecting access to care and supporting financial sustainability.

 Measurable impact

Collective Energy’s solar-plus-storage microgrid projects can:

• Offset a significant amount of the facility’s electricity useage
• Help prevent service disruptions and reduce the risk of significant outage-related losses over the life of the system

 Rural impact in action

Collective Energy has partnered with community health centers to develop solar and battery storage microgrid systems that help maintain operations during extreme weather and grid outages. These systems allow providers to continue delivering essential care, power medical equipment, and protect temperature-sensitive medications even when surrounding communities lose electricity.

The result is stronger disaster preparedness and more consistent access to care for vulnerable rural patient populations.

What clients are saying

“Collective Energy is very communicative and reachable, providing everything from solar assessment to the design, development, and installation of our solar operation in Douglas, AZ. They know that providing timely communication and quality service is key to ongoing relationships.” – Dennis Walto, Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Inc.

 

Why rural healthcare organizations choose Collective Energy

Collective Energy focuses exclusively on clean energy resilience solutions for community health centers and safety-net healthcare providers. Their team brings direct healthcare experience and understands the operational and financial realities rural facilities face.

Their mission is to help providers remain operational, financially sustainable, and prepared to protect patient care when disruptions happen.

Connect with Collective Energy

Damon Taugher
VP, Operations & Partnerships
dtaugher@collectiveenergyco.com
(805) 403-3345