Energy and Datacenters: Implications of new Regulations with a spotlight on Northern Virginia
Date:
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Location:
On-Demand
Duration:
60 minutes
The datacenter industry globally is racing to achieve a more sustainable future, spurred on by both governmental and customer climate goals. A central point to that sustainable future is decarbonizing the energy being consumed by datacenters, thereby eliminating the primary source of greenhouse gas emissions. Regulatory changes here in the United States will impact the green energy markets across the country and will subsequently impact datacenter operators looking to procure additional energy. In this roundtable discussion we will examine the following:
US wind and solar capacity outlook under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Impact of federal tax credits on the economics of green energy, and implications for datacenter electricity procurement.
While green energy procurement is a key challenge faced by datacenter providers, sometimes access to – any – energy can be a key challenge as well. Earlier this year, Dominion Energy, which covers the Northern Virginia (NoVA) datacenter market, announced potential problems with interconnecting electricity to new datacenter projects within its service area. Taking the discussion more local, what does this mean for datacenter providers in NoVA still looking to build out datacenter capacity to meet customer demand? For this part of the roundtable we’ll talk about:
Regulations, green energy, and siting -- overview of the Northern Virginia market and implications for datacenters
New datacenter energy hookup -- is Northern Virginia becoming constrained?
Ian CampbellAssociate Director, Product Management, Energy, S&P Global Commodity Insights
Speakers
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Lillian FedericoResearch Director, Energy, S&P Global Commodity Insights
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Kelly MorganResearch Director, Datacenter Services & Infrastructure, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Kelly joined 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, in April 2011 as an analyst covering the... Full Bio
Kelly joined 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, in April 2011 as an analyst covering the economics and finances of the datacenter and hosting industries. In her current role, she leads the analyst team that tracks datacenters, interconnection and content delivery worldwide. Coverage includes trends, providers, services, market size, supply/demand, M&A and technology. Before joining 451 Research, Kelly spent nearly 10 years in private equity, focusing on investments in telecommunications, IT and datacenters. Minimize
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Steve PiperDirector, Energy Research, S&P Global Commodity Insights
Steve Piper is Director of Energy Research with S&P Global Market Intelligence. Full Bio
Steve Piper is Director of Energy Research with S&P Global Market Intelligence. He has been with the company since 2009. Steve specializes in market price forecasting, economic feasibility assessment, demand forecasting and environmental analysis. Steve manages strategic research and forecasting for SNL Energy’s clients in the utilities, natural gas and coal industries.
Prior to his role at S&P Market Intelligence, Steve held positions at Platts, RDI and RCG/HaglerBailly.
Steve earned a Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College and an Master in Project Management from the School of Public Affairs at University of Maryland-College Park. Minimize
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Dan ThompsonPrincipal Research Analyst, S&P Global Market Intelligence
As a Principal Research Analyst for 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, Dan Thompson provides insight into the multi-tenant datacenter (MTDC) market space. Full Bio
As a Principal Research Analyst for 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, Dan Thompson provides insight into the multi-tenant datacenter (MTDC) market space. He currently leads the research in APAC and Latin America, while also assisting in the coverage of North America. Dan is particularly focused on MTDCs that are trying to move up the stack to offer additional services beyond colocation and connectivity. These services may include disaster recovery, security, various forms of cloud and other managed services. He also assists the 451 Research Information Security group when their interests overlap.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Dan spent 15 years as a practitioner in the IT industry, the last 10 of which were spent at a top managed/cloud service provider. Dan has worn many hats in the IT world, from systems administration to management, and was most recently an enterprise architect. In that role, Dan not only assisted in the launch of the company's security practice, but also created security-specific products, and designed security into every solution launched to the customer base.
Dan has been quoted in a number of top publications including The Wall Street Journal, as well as industry-specific publications such as CyberTrend Magazine. He is a regular speaker at client and industry events globally, and regularly appears on regional NBC affiliate stations across East Tennessee.
In addition to a good many IT industry certifications, Dan currently holds degrees in Network Security and Forensics, and Information Technology. Minimize
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