European Power: Generation, Grid and Price

If you develop, operate or buy data centre capacity

Connection as the binding constraint, what it costs, and which of the flexibility arguments survive contact with a permit.

5 chapters of 15 · read the whole document · PDF · EPUB

  1. 04To Build A Power Plant (Or A Data Centre) In EuropeQueues, permits and why the connection date is the project date.
  2. 05Case Study: SinesBrownfield sites, and what a retired plant does and does not hand you.
  3. 06Where The Demand Actually WentWhere European demand went, and what the Irish and German rules now require of a new campus.
  4. 11Types of Power TradesWhy onsite flexibility earns less than the pitch decks claim, with the three constraints that cause it.
  5. 15Where the Large Loads Actually LandConnection cost, the flexible connection, and the contract terms that are still empty.

These chapters stand on their own, but the argument they belong to runs through the whole document, and the author's commercial interest is disclosed in Chapter 01. Reading that first is worth the two minutes.

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