Eager to support public and private sector organizations focused on meeting the nation’s rapidly growing demand for distributed energy services, the Dept. of Energy (DOE) has released a list of tools and services the agency will make available facilitate their efforts.
With an eye on clean energy production for the massively expanding AI industry, the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board has released its report, ‘Powering AI and Data Center Infrastructure.”
The report includes 16 recommendations detailing ways DOE can support industry’s response to growing demands for reliable, safe, affordable and sustainable power. Among other things, the reports takes into account using AI for modeling power dynamics, the need for operational flexibility in data center and utility operations, and innovating generation and storage technologies.
“A nation powered by clean energy is a goal being brought into reality by the Biden-Harris administration as the country achieves a manufacturing boom not seen in decades and expands new industries, like data centers and AI,” said Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. “Today we are generating record amounts of carbon-free power – with more projected as the Investing in America agenda comes into full swing….”
Resources included in DOE’s Electricity Demand Growth Hub:
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- 2024 Future of Resource Adequacy outlines a wide array of solutions to address increased electricity demand on the nation’s power grid while continuing to reduce emissions.
- Clean Energy Resources to Meet Data Center Electricity Demand provides additional context about data center load growth during the clean energy transition and lays out the broad portfolio of energy technologies and enabling solutions available today to meet rising demand.
- Pathways to Commercial Liftoff Topic Brief: How Clean Energy is the Solution to Rising Electricity Demand briefly summarizes the opportunity to unlock hundreds of gigawatts of system capacity by accelerating full commercialization for multiple clean energy technologies, advanced grid solutions, and virtual power plants (e.g., aggregated distributed energy resources) covered by DOE’s Pathways to Commercial Liftoff reports.
- How AI Can Help Clean Energy Meet Growing Electricity Demand summarizes the first set of milestones achieved by DOE’s voltAIc initiative, which is focused on building AI-powered tools for environmental permitting to help speed up energy deployments.
- Voices of Experience: Decarbonization Strategies and Grid Planning shares insights from a 2024 summer series for utilities focused on the unique regulatory environment, electricity market, and geographical dynamics to consider for carbon reduction strategies.
- Electrification Resource Library includes a catalog of 300+ DOE and market resources related to electrification, including news articles and resources on electricity demand growth, data centers, electricity solutions, and more.
