[Scoundreller]

every hospital I’m familiar with has its own backup power generation. Sometimes diesel so they can fully island off the grid for a while (but unsure about water & heat source). And with roll-up generator hookups+contracts if that fails.

Those should be the first requirements before being able to be deemed critical.

Heck, I’m familiar with some orgs that sell their backup generator capacity to be on-call to the grid in the event of supply shortage. To them it’s a profitable load test that reduces the risk of outage.

[briffle]

My local hospital gets a deal from the local power company that they kick on their generators at peak demand times, and the power company pays them handsomely for it. The hospital gets to test their Emergency power works as expected, and the power company reduces their load by a few Megawatts for a few hours.

[gorkish]

> Those should be the first requirements before being able to be deemed critical.

Strong agree; however, it would be highly unusual to find that any facility that knows to file critical load paperwork has neglected this, so I'm not sure that it would actually do much other than inconvenience the process.