“ The VITAL 100MW configuration takes the same core capabilities and asks a different question: what happens when you point some of that output directly at a coastline that doesn’ t have reliable power or clean water? The answer is a single vessel that can serve the equivalent of a small city – indefinitely, from offshore, with no connection to the existing grid.”
Learning from the past Optimal Transit cites Hurricane Maria as the scenario its platform is designed to address. The 2017 storm triggered the longest blackout in US history at close to 11 months, cutting power to all 3.3 million residents of Puerto Rico.
Recovery dragged on for lots of communities around the island because damaged infrastructure held up repairs.
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