Agenda

The increasing restrictions on the use of fossil and nuclear fuels to produce energy and the increasing penetration of renewables are adding capacity to the grid, but are also creating instability. Availability and stability of the grid are top concerns for everybody, but especially for critical users such as data centres, safety-related infrastructures and business critical processes to name a few. If you consider data centres alone, worldwide they consumed 416 TWh of energy in 2015, 40% more than the whole of the UK; moreover, energy costs can represent from 25% to 60% of a total data centre’s operating cost. Data centre energy consumption will grow more than 3 times in the next 10 years, so it is of utmost importance for these types of users to optimise their energy costs and take advantage of the increased offer of renewable energy, preserving the energy availability and resilience of the supply systems. This presentation will focus on the experience of a global power protection device manufacturer and data centre infrastructure provider with behind-the-meter and in-front-of-the-meter solutions. In particular, three models with real case study examples will be shown. You will learn:

• How the existing UPS installed base can participate in grid regulation with an aggregation model.
• How the data centres and power-intensive users can optimise the usage of their assets achieving cost savings and unlocking additional revenue streams from grid services.
• How battery energy storage systems add to the transmission and distribution network and can significantly contribute to the stabilisation of geographic systems and the reliability of micro-grids.