Platform / Application area 01

Data centre.

A continuous critical load that cannot be shed, sized against on-site renewables and storage, and validated over a multi-year horizon before any equipment is procured.

Load characteristics

A data centre load is large, flat and highly critical. It offers no load diversity and tolerates no interruption; the design question is therefore not the quantity of energy required, but the firm capacity needed, at what confidence level and for what duration.

Continuous 24/7 critical load with negligible diversity between racks
Redundancy expressed as a tier rather than a percentage; N+1 and 2N topologies change the sizing problem fundamentally
PUE and cooling load that move with ambient temperature, so the load series is weather-coupled too
Multi-year IT growth ramps, requiring the system to remain feasible from the first to the final year of the study horizon
Grid connection capacity and export limits that constrain how much renewable generation is worth installing
Demand charges and network tariffs large enough to change the optimal storage duration

Single-line diagram of a grid-connected data centre power system with PV, wind, storage and critical load

Live

Live digital twin

Live irradiance, temperature and wind for Western Sydney driving a 60 MW solar array and a 40 MW wind cluster against a 50 MW data-centre load, with a 200 MWh battery dispatched between them. In a full study, the same model is run over the agreed horizon, typically 5 to 20 years; here it is shown across three days.

Platform modules

Engine configuration for this application area

Resource acquisition

Five complete calendar years of hourly reanalysis data per site — GHI, plane-of-array irradiance at the array tilt, ambient temperature and 100 m wind speed — stored locally so every number traces to one series.

Design & sizing

PV, wind and storage unit selection with datasheets; IT load model with PUE and growth ramp; PV / WT / BESS capacities solved against the reliability criterion.

Digital twin

Fine-timestep dispatch of generation, load, adaptive storage control and grid exchange, with live telemetry.

Feasibility

Feasibility over the agreed study horizon, cashflows, year-by-year trajectory and a scorecard across siting cases, on a referenced cost basis.

Data export

One to five years of dispatch logs at 10, 30 or 60 minute resolution, re-dispatched at the export timestep so the energy balance holds exactly at every row — ready for real-time simulation platforms.

Design basis

Standards and criteria applied

Data-centre infrastructure and redundancy tier classification
Wiring rules, switchgear and controlgear assemblies, and protection coordination for the distribution system
Grid connection of inverter energy systems, and PV array installation and DC-side safety
Battery energy storage installation, safety and fire separation
Standby generating-set requirements where diesel or gas backup remains in the design
Reliability assessment methods for industrial and commercial power systems

The applicable set is confirmed at kick-off and depends on jurisdiction, connection point and the reliability target agreed with you.

Apply the platform to your site.

Provide a site location and a load profile, and we will return a sized system and a performance trajectory over the agreed study horizon.

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