In this CRA Energy Chats podcast, CRA Associate Principal Laura Sochat and David Winter, MD Europe for Flux Federation, take a holistic view of the energy crisis, starting with an assessment of the events over the past two years that led to the current crisis and looking at the key factors underlying the latest events. Laura and David then assess the impact of the crisis on the energy trilemma, discussing the impact of policy and regulation which, for a long time, focused on supply side measures. Finally, David and Laura discuss the key role of data and of having an in depth understanding of the role played by different players in the market, including customers, to provide the flexibility required to a system that needs to transition quickly.
Data center growth: implications for the power and utilities sector
This unprecedented demand for power requires new approaches from utilities and system planners around load forecasting, resource planning, load queue design,...