David Porter
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like ERCOT in Texas.
as well as the individual utilities and energy companies that serve the data centers.
But it's a framework that defined five different levels of flexibility.
It gives the data centers a starting point to say, okay, on the low end, we'll be flexible for some amount of our load for this period of time during the year.
That's the smallest increment.
It's that less than 100 hours that I was mentioning earlier.
All the way up on the far end, the fifth level,
where the data center is fully grid interactive.
They're providing ancillary services back to the grid.
They're willing to island and be able to come off the grid for up to 24 hours at a time.
They'll meet short calls to reduce load or day ahead calls, but they are fully interactive with the grid.
And there's a few things in between.
What the framework does
is give the utility and the developer the opportunity in the first time they sit down, the data center company can say, we are able to commit this amount at this stage.
How fast can you serve me for this new data center?
That for the utility makes their interconnection study much, much more straightforward because now they know they're asking for 500 megawatts
But for 200 hours a year, they can be flexible for half of that.
So that means my need to build additional facilities to meet that one to two weeks a year when I'm stressed to meet that load, they're capable of making it work without me having to shed load elsewhere.
That makes all the difference in the world to the utility planners and the operators.
That's exactly right.
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