Tag Archives: Grid Reliability
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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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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, […]
