(Total Views: 83)
Posted On: 03/01/2025 8:23:12 AM
Post# of 13487
US: Data Centers Imperil The Electrical Grid & Climate Action
According to Canary Media, in order to meet that increase in demand for electricity, Virginia would need to erect twice as many solar farms per year by 2040 as it did in 2024, build more wind farms than all the state’s current offshore wind plans combined, and install three times more battery storage than Dominion Energy, the state’s biggest utility, now intends to build. Even it it does all that, Virginia would need to double current power imports from other states, but even that wouldn’t be enough. It would still need to build new methane-powered generating plants, which would undermine Virginia’s clean energy goals. Meeting just half the unconstrained demand would require building seven new 1.5-gigawatt methane plants by 2040, which is nearly double what Dominion is already planning to build.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/02/24/data-cen...te-action/
icymi
According to Canary Media, in order to meet that increase in demand for electricity, Virginia would need to erect twice as many solar farms per year by 2040 as it did in 2024, build more wind farms than all the state’s current offshore wind plans combined, and install three times more battery storage than Dominion Energy, the state’s biggest utility, now intends to build. Even it it does all that, Virginia would need to double current power imports from other states, but even that wouldn’t be enough. It would still need to build new methane-powered generating plants, which would undermine Virginia’s clean energy goals. Meeting just half the unconstrained demand would require building seven new 1.5-gigawatt methane plants by 2040, which is nearly double what Dominion is already planning to build.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/02/24/data-cen...te-action/
icymi
(1)
(0)
Everything i post are my opinions only. DYODD
