Listen in as Bryce Yonker, executive director of Grid Forward, talks with regional and national leaders who are working to advance the electric grid. In about half an hour, Grid Forward Forum will give you candid insights, new observations and a feel for how our utilities, grid operators, government offices and technology providers think, feel and grapple with the fast evolving energy landscape.
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Listen in as Bryce Yonker, executive director of Grid Forward, talks with regional and national leaders who are working to advance the electric grid. In about half an hour, Grid Forward Forum will give you candid insights, new observations and a feel for how our utilities, grid operators, government offices and technology providers think, feel and grapple with the fast evolving energy landscape.
Analyzing Data Center Flexibility to Meet Growing Power Demands
Grid Forward Forum
39 minutes
2 months ago
Analyzing Data Center Flexibility to Meet Growing Power Demands
Power demand from data centers is clearly increasing faster than current electric infrastructure and markets can accommodate. Therefore, data centers and grid operators are exploring one workaround: flexing data center loads during peak demand times. Brian Janous, of Cloverleaf Infrastructure, and Chris Pennington, of Iron Mountain Data Centers, discuss the current opportunities and challenges to data center flexibility. For example, there are options for moving workloads among facilities and leveraging the improving capabilities of battery storage. On the other hand, demand response is not a major business driver. The industry needs to define relatively simple solutions that can be deployed at scale to meet market demand.
Grid Forward Forum
Listen in as Bryce Yonker, executive director of Grid Forward, talks with regional and national leaders who are working to advance the electric grid. In about half an hour, Grid Forward Forum will give you candid insights, new observations and a feel for how our utilities, grid operators, government offices and technology providers think, feel and grapple with the fast evolving energy landscape.