A new EDNA report based on reasearch by Oeko-Institut Consult GmbH presents an assessment the flexibility potential of data centres and analyses challenges and opportunities for using that potential. The report indicates that useful potentials of data centre flexibility exist, but that the deployment of data centre flexibility is limited by operational and economic barriers, which vary across different data centre types.

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Register for the joint EDNA and International Energy Agency Digital Demand Driven Electricity Networks (3DEN) initiative webinar on 15 July where the report will be presented by Prof. Dr. Dierk Bauknecht together and further EDNA and IEA research will be presented. Visit the events page

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