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UC San Diego will test a medium-voltage solid-state transformer and flexible-load controls at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in an $8.48 million California Energy Commission-funded project designed to serve 2 MW of AI computing load while reducing power-conversion losses and supporting grid planning.
The demonstration also benefits from the unusual electrical environment surrounding the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
UC San Diego operates a 55 MW campus microgrid integrating solar generation, battery storage, combined heat and power, thermal storage and advanced grid controls. The university says the system supplies about 92% of the campus’s annual electricity needs and can island from the utility grid during outages.
That makes the campus a useful environment for evaluating how a large flexible computing load, advanced power electronics and distributed-energy resources can interact as part of a single power system.
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