Tag Archives: data center
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Flexible Loads, Resilient Grids
EPRI’s DCFlex initiative explores how large flexible loads can support grid reliability and AI-driven growth By Chris Warren Over his three-decade-plus career in the electric power industry, David Porter has seen just about everything. Before joining EPRI in 2009, Porter held a variety of positions in utility operations—from power marketing to transmission, distribution, energy efficiency, […]
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How Reindustrialization Is Boosting U.S. Manufacturing – and Challenging Utilities
A new EPRI report documents ways decarbonization efforts drive regional industrial growth and “point load” electricity demand. By Chuck Ross Industrial electricity demand has been flat for most of the last 25 years at 25% of total U.S. demand, with many companies moving their production overseas. But that’s changing in some regions of the United […]
