Tag Archives: data center
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Large Load Ride-Through for Data Centers
Bridging the Gap Between Grid Requirements and Facility Performance EPRI examines a growing reliability challenge facing the power sector: ensuring that large, power-electronics-dominated loads such as data centers remain connected during grid disturbances. As data centers continue to scale, individual facilities can reach gigawatt-level demand, making their unexpected disconnection a potential threat to bulk power […]
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How a Common Language for Flexibility Can Speed Large Load Interconnection
By Chris Warren In a relatively short time, large loads have become a focus for utilities, policymakers, regulators, and retail customers. For example, according to the Smart Electric Power Alliance, state regulators approved 29 large-load tariffs in 2025, compared to just 14 between 2018 and 2024. In the summer of 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory […]
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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 […]
