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Summary
With grid instability and energy security continuing to prove challenging for industry across Europe, a new report is highlighting solutions for data center operators to navigate a complex energy market and avoid downtime from grid resilience issues.
According to Aggreko, major questions remain over the future security of data center operators’ energy supply, with power outages, connection delays and rising fees only serving to compound the issue.
The report gives practical examples of decentralized solutions in action, including microgrids, gas-powered generators, combined heat and power, and energy storage.
One such example features a data center with existing on-site generation seeking ‘grid-interactive’ capability. Here, as a core principle of demand-side response (DSR), businesses temporarily lower demand when asked by the distribution network operator, using battery storage, Stage V generation or multi-MW-gas generation to cover these requests.
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