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Data center energy and Onsite Power Solutions Leader

"The International Energy Agency said this week that 49.7 million miles of transmission lines—enough to wrap around the planet 2,000 times—will have to be built or replaced by 2040 to achieve the climate lobby’s net-zero emissions goal." This is estimated by the IEA to cost $600 billion every year to upgrade the grid by 2030. Every week I see numbers and anecdotes like this that continue to show the electric grid is severely underfunded and that electricity grid constraints will further exasperate. The only real answer to meet growth, electrification and total carbon emission reductions that I see are microgrids at all scales and technology integration. This will be a great challenge to the current thinking, methods, regulations and focus. It is not a technological challenge. #electricity #renewables #netzero #grid #power #datacenters

Allan Schurr, PE

Energy Transition | Microgrids | Energy Solutions

12mo

KC Mares and one more consideration is that that failure to meet these ambitious transmission investment goals as outlined will ALSO reduce the reliability of existing grid supplied power since we will continue closing older dispatchable plants as we decarbonize. #Microgrids deliver the local resiliency that will allow business to continue and grow operations against this backdrop of change.

Bruce Myatt, PE

Data Center Engineering Executive & Thought Leader

11mo

Agreed KC … we can’t wait for the Grid and must take responsibility for our own Enegy needs with global Distributed Energy Resources.

Fred Valenzano

Engineering Sr. Project Manager

11mo

Well thought and well spoken

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