Sounds like an easy question, doesn't it?
Electricity is probably the most misunderstood, underestimated, undervalued and taken-for-granted thing we have on earth... except for air and water.
Electricity was actually only harnessed (some say "invented") by Benjamin Franklin in June of 1752 when he found that his kite could conduct electricity down the string and into a jar. This miraculous journey of lightning plasma into a jar, made the first electricity spark jump. Ben Franklin's genius, nearly 250 years ago, literally changed civilization. We now throw around words like: electricity; battery; conductor; condenser; charge; discharge; uncharged; negative; minus; plus; electric shock; and electrician without any thought whatsoever! We have at our fingertips such marvels (let's call them Mr. Franklin's spin-offs) as Radio, Television, Microwave and Satellite Communications, Microwave Ovens, Computers, Walkman Radio and TV's... not to mention Heart Pace-Makers, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), X-Ray... and well, 1,000's of other things.
We have come to use and depend upon electricity for so much and so often that just the mere though of being without it brings chills to one's body. If your screen went black, right now... what would you do for the rest of the day?
When we say that an Electrical Disaster could shut your company down, it brings an uncomfortable feeling in your stomach, doesn't it.
There is nothing we can do to stop an electrical outage. We can't run out the store and buy more... or save it up.
Our only hope is to have a plan designed to get us and our company through a loss of power from the utility company. Easy? No. Possible? Yes.
... and this is where a Disaster Recovery Plan comes into view. Call us to get yours started.
You can't.
You can't save it up, either.
You either have it or you don't.
Your only option is to keep a separate electrical generator maintained, large enough to run your entire company (or at least the important parts) for hours. And, you will have to keep enough fuel on-hand to feed this energy eating monster, hour-after-hour. As this can cost tens or hundreds of thousand of dollars, only the companies that absolutely must keep running have them. Even your local telephone company runs on batteries... 24 hours a day, 7 days a week...as they always have done. That's why your phone works when the lights are out... except for business telephone systems whose PBX or Switch needs utility power.
Tip: Always keep a couple of Plain Old Telephone Service lines (POTS) up and running. If your company's switch fails, at least you can answer the phone.