Nearly a million customers across California lost power in October 2019, as PG&E deliberately shut off power. All as PG&E tried to battle high winds, and wildfire conditions. Unfortunately, the costs of deliberate blackouts set the California economy back by as much as $1 billion, according to The Sacramento Bee. Others, like Michael Wara of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment said the economic cost of the shutdown could have reached $2.5 billion, as noted by CNBC. That's why many people are calling for solutions, such as microgrids, or a smaller version of an electrical grid powered by local energy. "A microgrid can be powered by distributed generators, batteries, and/or renewable resources like solar panels. Depending on how it's fueled and how its requirements are managed, a microgrid might run indefinitely," according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Plus, according to GTM Research, the annual microgrid market could double over the next two years from $1.4 billion in 2017 to $2.8 billion by 2022. That's creating sizable, exciting opportunity for top companies like CleanSpark, Inc. (OTCQB:CLSK)(OTCQB:CLSKD), Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT), and Ballard Power Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:BLDP)(TSX:BLDP).

VANCOUVER and HOBRO, Denmark , Jan. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) today announced that it has signed Equipment Sales Agreements (ESAs) for the provision of an initial 500 FCgen ® -1020ACS fuel cell stacks to adKor GmbH ("adKor"; www.adkor.de/en/ ) and SFC Energy AG ("SFC Energy"; www.sfc.com/en/ ), to be integrated into adKor's Jupiter backup power systems for deployment at radio tower sites in Germany through the end of 2021.