There are still a lot of misconceptions about natural gas as a clean, reliable fuel source to power an entire data center in emergency situations. Erik Brumbaugh of Enchanted Rock addresses some of the common myths around the use of natural gas.
Breaking Historical Power Norms: Energy and Resiliency as a Service
Leaders in the power and data center space still have misconceptions about power delivery, decarbonization, efficiency, and resiliency. A significant focus in working with power solutions today revolves around sustainable designs and ensuring more significant levels of resiliency. Learn how new solutions such as energy and resiliency-as-a-service break legacy paradigms, courtesy of Enchanted Rock.
The Makings of a Modern Microgrid
Learn how a microgrid offers more than just backup power generation, including the capabilities that can allow microgrids to help modernize energy sources and how they are managed. This continues our special report series via Enchanted Rock.
The State of the Grid: Time for a Refresh
Our electrical infrastructure is aging, and is being pushed to do more than it was initially designed to do. Learn why it’s time for the electric grid to be refreshed in this special report series with Enchanted Rock.
The State of the Grid: Understanding the Power Paradigm Shift
The electric grid is more than just generation and transmission infrastructure. Learn why data center leaders must understand the power paradigm shift in this special report series courtesy of Enchanted Rock.
Reliability-as-a-Service Makes Microgrids Affordable
More and more businesses are showing interest in microgrids and the enhanced electric reliability and power quality they provide. Enchanted Rock explores how the concept of reliability-as-a-service can make microgrids affordable for data centers.
Top 10 Data Center Stories of January 2022
Future trends and the emerging metaverse were hot topics on Data Center Frontier last month. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in January 2022.
Hybrid Microgrids Help Data Centers Achieve Net-Zero Goals
Many large power consumers, like data centers, have corporate objectives of carbon neutrality, but find themselves having to achieve this through buying carbon credits to offset their carbon output. John Gould, Chief Revenue Officer of Enchanted Rock explores how hybrid microgrids can help data centers, and other large energy users, lead the way when it comes to achieving their net-zero carbon emission goals.
Dual Purpose Microgrids Provide Resilience and Grid Stability
Increasingly severe weather events and the resulting power outages (some lasting weeks) exacerbate challenges to grid reliability. Enchanted Rock explores how dual purpose microgrids can offer both value to site hosts as well as stability to the grid at large.
Microgrids Provide Clean and Resilient Alternative to Diesel Backup Power
Given goals for a cleaner U.S. power supply, utilities and policymakers may be seeking alternatives to a strategy of deploying diesel generators for backup power/resilience. Enchanted Rock compares microgrid solutions to see which alternative to diesel backup power can provide resilience while reducing emissions.
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