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Navigating key challenges in data center development: Location, sustainability, and hardware

By adopting strategies like securing Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), investing in on-site renewable energy, and leveraging advanced cooling technologies, data centers can reduce their environmental impact while meeting power needs.

A pretty big deal: Microsoft and Brookfield to develop 10.5 GW of renewables in ‘largest ever’ corporate PPA

The agreement includes more than 10.5 GW of wind, solar, and “new or impactful carbon-free energy generation technologies.”

Solar prices stabilized, wind prices rose in Q1 2024: report

The report, North America Q1 2024 PPA Price Index, follows LevelTen Energy’s report from earlier this year, that showed North American P25 PPA offer prices rose by 4% in Q4 of 2023.

Renewable energy PPA price hikes reach ‘astounding’ levels, report finds

A growing imbalance between power purchase agreement supply and demand, along with “skyrocketing” development costs, lifted PPA prices 9.7% during the first quarter of 2022 to nearly $40 per MWh, according to LevelTen’s Q1 PPA Price Index report. The firm said that year-over-year, that represents a 28.5% increase, which it called “astounding.” The firm said, however, that large energy buyers

Going beyond the clean energy PPA to decarbonize the grid

There’s an opportunity to go beyond the clean energy PPA, and more effectively decarbonize the grid through hourly load matching.