Energy & Grid Management
Tue, Oct 27
Molly Glick
Molly Glick
Energy Central Team
·Posted in Energy & Grid Management

NEWS: NERC’s board has approved new standards to prevent data centers from disrupting the grid.

  • The latest: NERC’s Board of Trustees has adopted the org’s proposed standards to keep the power system chugging as more data centers come online. These 1) Direct transmission planners to study the “reliability impact” of new computational loads and 2) order data center operators to disclose their facilities’ responses to grid disturbances.

  • What’s next: Now, the standards are headed to FERC for final approval.

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