Partnership announcements, deployment news and long-form thinking on the economics of powering off-grid and bad-grid sites. Our archive, migrated in full.
Tower power is usually budgeted as a fuel line, because fuel is the part that is visible. The costs that move the total are the ones attached to sending a person to the site.
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A defence power specification reads like a civil one on paper. The requirements that decide the outcome are the unwritten ones: acoustic signature, fuel logistics burden, and how many people have to touch the machine.
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Bladon was named winner of the Vodafone Renewable Energy Challenge, recognising its microturbine technology for remote and off-grid power.
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Bladon signed a multi-year, multi-country distribution agreement with Jubaili Bros covering the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Read the articleOne Commerce, Bladon's exclusive Philippines partner, ordered 200 microturbine generators for off-grid telecoms towers across the islands.
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As telecoms operators chase net zero targets, the choice of fuel for off-grid and bad-grid power carries real commercial risk, and flexibility looks like the safest hedge.
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Bladon announced an R&D programme with Loughborough University to advance hydrogen combustion for microturbines, targeting ultra-low emissions.
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Metcalfe's Law says network value rises with the square of users, and more users means more power. Can renewables alone keep up at bad grid cell sites?
Read the articleBladon and Ryse Energy announced a strategic partnership at TowerXchange Dubai, combining microturbines and wind power for off-grid telecom towers.
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Announced at TowerXchange MENA, Bladon and Abbott Technologies marked three years cutting off-grid telecom site costs by more than 50% in South Africa.
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