Unplugged: Data Centers Embrace Onsite Power to Break Free from the Grid
“What’s really changed now is they’re really looking to on-site power to become a much more permanent solution,” Natalie Sunderland, Bloom Energy’s chief marketing officer, told Data Center Knowledge. “They want to be connected to the grid, but they recognize that on-site power is going to be a much more permanent part of their strategy.”
The lesson slowly being learned is that the heavily regulated electricity model is incapable of responding to today's needs. How then do we optimize those decisions for permanent on-site power? Allow them to connect. Allow third parties to serve them. What you get are new utilities, new grids. That brings the economies of scale (lower cost, higher reliability, smaller environmental footprint) that today comes only from the grid. And if these new utilities and grids DON'T connect to the existing grids, there is NO NEED FOR UTILITY REGULATION. If you value speed-to-market, this is how you should be thinking.
That's what we call "Consumer Regulated Electricity" (CRE). CRE is government policy to enable speed-to-market for the 21st century. Contact us to learn more.
