Batteries for data centers13 Jul 2020 10:29
https://youtu.be/JcP1XTjYrTE?t=1455
IFBF Session 2 Kenneth Davies (Birch Infrastructure)
"Microsoft and Amazon, to meet their load growth, times their increasing renewable targets , moving from 50 and 60% to 100%, each of those are going to have to procure somewhere of the order of 1.5GW of new renewables PPA's every year for the foreseeable future."
[39:50] "To meet the demands of the datacenters, and be able to say that we're 100% renewable not just on a yearly basis but an hourly basis, lithium-ion and short duration batteries just do not cut it"
[42:53] " My conclusion, looking at the market, is flow batteries already beat lithium-ion"