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Microgrids: Data Center Energy Delivery for a Digital Economy

The data center industry continues to meet society’s increased demand for constant connectivity, content delivery, and myriad business and personal necessities. As the data center industry expands, whether in traditional facilities or at the edge, data center leaders seek ways to deploy better, more resilient mission critical operations, including power systems. Meanwhile, severe weather events, cybersecurity threats, and aging equipment strain the electric grid.

The Affordable Microgrid

This report from Microgrid Knowledge compares the cost of power outages with the associated economic value of electric reliability. They introduce an innovative approach, reliability-as-a-service, that reduces the capital costs for microgrid customers, and provide real-world examples of how microgrids using this model performed in Texas during Hurricane Harvey.

Powering Resilient EV Infrastructure

This white paper from Guidehouse investigates the potential of using dual purpose microgrids to overcome the significant challenges faced by fleets, fast charging site operators, and utilities with electricity poised to become the standard for road transportation energy.

Improving Energy Solutions for Evolving Digital Infrastructure Power Needs

The electric grid is a dynamic, multi-faceted ecosystem made up of asset owners, manufacturers, service providers, and federal, state, and local government officials. Ensuring the grid provides reliable, efficient, and sustainable electricity continues to be a challenge across the entire ecosystem. Many of these challenges can be addressed by microgrids which, studies show, offer more resilience and are better for the environment than diesel generators.

Enhancing Resiliency for the Energy Transition

This white paper from Guidehouse explores dual purpose microgrids’ critical role of offering long duration backup power at customer sites and balancing wholesale wind and other renewables on the larger grid to guarantee resilient electricity.

Decarbonized Resilience

A critical question facing utilities, regulators, communities, large energy users, and other industry stakeholders is whether the same level of local community resilience provided by diesel backup generators can be achieved through economical microgrid alternatives that are more consistent with clean energy goals.

A New Grid Architecture for Optimizing Resiliency

Grid resiliency has never been more topical than it is now. Extreme weather supply constraints, cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and broad electrification are creating greater risks for modern society as it increasingly relies on the grid for its energy needs. Forward-thinking policy makers must consider a new grid architecture to achieve greater resiliency against multiple threat vectors. As the list of critical customers and community services relying on electric service expands, policies that support microgrids can work in tandem with the existing regulatory framework for electric utilities to cost effectively deliver high levels of resiliency.