Two pathways to disrupted essential support
Connecting energy resilience, health vulnerability, and community infrastructure.
Galvanista works across the energy and health sectors to understand where energy conditions create greater health and resilience needs.
Why energy resilience matters for health
Electricity supports healthcare across rural and urban communities through powering healthcare facilities, medical equipment, medication refrigeration, climate control, and essential healthcare functions. When electricity becomes unaffordable or unreliable, those supports can be disrupted, making energy affordability and reliability important healthcare considerations that impact the greater community as a whole
From energy disruption to potential healthcare consequences
How EcoDex Empowers Your Energy and Health Decisions
EcoDex is Galvanista’s analytical framework designed to support decision-making in identifying and implementing energy-related healthcare interventions. It focuses on project development and evaluation. EcoDex can be tailored to address specific decisions, ranging from understanding current conditions and identifying priorities to assessing impacts, comparing potential interventions, and evaluating outcomes after implementation.
Discuss an EcoDex analysisWhat can EcoDex help you understand?
- Resilience profile
What conditions are shaping energy-related health and resilience needs?
- Targeting & prioritization
Where should attention or investment go first?
- Impact assessment
What impacts could a proposed project, policy, program, or large load create?
- Intervention assessment
Which interventions are worth considering?
- Economic evaluation
What would an intervention cost, who could benefit, and what are the tradeoffs?
- Program & intervention evaluation
What happened after implementation, and for whom?
Applying EcoDex
The EcoDex framework creates a Medical Energy Resilience Profile that consolidates selected indicators related to health, energy, reliability, and healthcare spending for a specific location.
Healthcare geography
Hospitals, federally qualified health centers, other relevant facilities, populations, and service areas help establish where healthcare and medically vulnerable needs are concentrated.
Energy infrastructure
Transmission lines, substations, reliability conditions, service areas, and other relevant energy-system information help establish the infrastructure and electricity conditions affecting those areas.
Medically electricity-dependent population
2,698
Medicare beneficiaries1
Current HHS emPOWER beneficiaries with qualifying electricity-dependent medical equipment or device claims.
Affordability context
7,314 households
in 14 high-energy-burden census tracts2
Tracts at or above DOE's 6% high-energy-burden reference.
Reliability context
Median annual reliability exposure3
All events
2.00
interruptions / customer / year
586.4
minutes / customer / year
Without Major Event Days
1.40
interruptions / customer / year
153.6
minutes / customer / year
Healthcare spending exposure
$462K to $2.31M
Potential inpatient-equivalent healthcare spending from one modeled widespread outage4
1 HHS emPOWER public data for Medicare beneficiaries with qualifying electricity-dependent medical equipment or device claims.
2 U.S. Department of Energy household energy-burden data. The 7,314 figure represents estimated households within 14 tracts meeting the 6% tract-level reference, not an individual household classification.
3 U.S. Energy Information Administration Form EIA-861 reliability data, 2020-2024. Values are medians of annual SAIFI and SAIDI under All Events and Without Major Event Days reporting conditions. Major Event Days are days identified under reliability reporting rules as unusually severe outage conditions. The same metrics are shown under both conditions to distinguish overall outage exposure from conditions excluding Major Event Days. SAIFI values are rounded to two decimal places.
4 EcoDex modeled healthcare spending scenario analysis. Illustrative planning estimate, not observed outage-attributable healthcare spending.
From analysis to implementation
Collaborate
Energy-health decisions often span across institutional boundaries. Galvanista collaborates with organizations that provide data, expertise, funding, program access, implementation capacity, or evaluation support for EcoDex analyses and related initiatives.
- Healthcare organizations and health plans: Population and clinical context, participant access, healthcare funding, program integration, and outcome measurement.
- Utilities, VPP operators, and battery aggregators: Program access, grid-services expertise, DER aggregation, dispatch, and electricity-market participation.
- Energy technology and project-delivery partners: Batteries, solar, distributed-energy technologies, installation, device integration, and deployment capacity.
- Data centers and other large-load stakeholders: Infrastructure investment, community-resilience funding, flexible-load opportunities, and strategies that connect new energy demand with broader resilience benefits.
- Government, funders, and finance partners: Public programs, incentives, grants, private capital, financing structures, and pathways for implementation and scale.
- Policy, advocacy, and professional organizations: Policy research, regulatory insight, stakeholder convening, technical guidance, and pathways for broader adoption.
- Research and community partners: Independent evaluation, local knowledge, participant engagement, trusted relationships, and implementation support.