Margarita Patria presents the session titled “Data Centers Portfolio Planning & Selection.”
Aggressive load growth is the “new normal” in those utility service areas blessed with the prospects for data center, hyperscaler, bit mining and other large load customers. This segment will identify what an IRP team must evaluate when encountering this prospect:
- Deployment scenarios
- Co-located
- Energy park
- System-embedded
- BTM
- Load growth forecast
- Demand response involvement and assumptions
- Reliability impacts
- Transmission availability and interconnection process
- Resource availability
- Impact on customer pricing across all classes
- Scope and timing of capacity expansion
- Capital sourcing
- Ownership
- Rationalizing customer requirements and timelines with commercial availability and readiness
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