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RPower Solutions for Data Centers

Today more than ever, supporting the grown energy demands of data centers and the industries they support is of critical importance. RPower offers multiple solutions to get data centers the power they need when the utility grid is not available or ensure resiliency when there is a power outage.

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We help data centers and companies with big data center ambitions by providing reliable backup and prime power solutions.

Prime Power Solutions

We bring utility to the customer.

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Facilitating High Energy Demands for Data Centers

As utility companies around the world struggle to meet the surging energy demands from data centers, industrial manufacturing facilities, and the oil and gas industry, the timelines for new large loads to interconnect are getting longer and more uncertain.

Uncertainty for Data Center Stakeholders

Data centers investors and business partners need to feel confident in the go-to-market strategy. Stakeholders simply cannot accept this level of uncertainty. A partnership with RPower to deploy on-site, prime power solutions allows data centers to control their own energy future.

Efficient, Energy Solutions for Data Centers at Scale

RPower’s prime power solutions bring standard 20-300 MW plant configurations that can be deployed in 15-18 months and scale into Gigawatt campuses alongside the data center’s load ramp.

Utility Bridge Power Solutions

Deployable natural gas bridge power solutions that provide prime power until the utility infrastructure is ready for service. RPower offers two types of utility bridge solutions.

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Permanent bridge-to-backup gas powerplant

Our permanent bridge-to-backup solutions leverage clean natural gas power plants that serve as the primary power source until the utility interconnection is completed.

After the utility interconnection is made, the RPower generator system provides backup power and allows our customers to offer utility companies much needed flexibility. The solution enables data centers to:

  • Get connected sooner in multiple markets
  • Reduce their energy costs
  • Serve as a resource to the community when the grid is stressed

Temporary mobile gas powerplant

Our temporary mobile gas powerplants leverage the same technologies as our permanent solutions, but they come integrated on mobile trailers. They can be:

  • Mobilized in weeks
  • Energize a customer’s facility for as long as it takes for the utility to arrive
  • Demobilized when the utility service arrives

Natural Gas Backup Generation Solutions

Resilience-as-a-Service (RaaS)

Bundled Generator Solution with Maintenance

Remote Monitoring

Demand Response

Market Dispatch

the Fastest Generator Lead Times in the Industry

All for a Low Monthly Payment

For data center sites that already have utility service and want a backup solution superior to the traditional diesel solution, RPower offers a RaaS solution.

RPower’s RaaS solutions deploy clean natural gas generators that provide backup power and allow our data center partners to offer utility companies much needed flexibility and capacity. The RaaS solution enables data centers to:

  • Ensure they have reliable backup when the utility grid fails
  • Support the local utility when grid capacity becomes strained
  • Save money compared to the traditional diesel backup solution

By leveraging our clean, natural gas generator solutions, data centers are able to significantly reduce onsite emissions, and can fully decarbonize by utilizing renewable natural gas (RNG).

RPower’s RaaS contract structures also enable our customers to stay in compliance with some of the most challenging service level agreements in the data center industry.

Powered Land Solutions

Land and Power to accelerate speed to market.

Key Considerations for Data Center Success

  • How fast will a utility interconnect my large data center load if I offered to be a resource to the grid instead of just a load?
  • How fast could I scale if I allowed the utility to interrupt my service and leverage my clean onsite power generation?
  • Do I need the utility company at all?

Get Capacity to Market and Scale Faster with RPower

RPower has contracted with several large landowners in the US and partners in other key industries (i.e., oil and gas, cryptocurrency, etc.) to identify, prioritize, and bring to market turnkey powered land packages with pre-designed powerplants and critical site infrastructure (i.e., gas, fiber, water, sewer, etc.) identified or fully entitled.

The interconnection process for large loads is only getting more complicated, more expensive, and more uncertain in timing. Our onsite generation solutions position our clients to take control of their destiny and get to market sooner.

“TOP 5 Demand Drivers for Data Centers: Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Big Data, eCommerce, and Data Virtualization/Cloud Computing”

– Dow Jones Market Research

Benefits of RPower Onsite Power Generation for Data Centers

Speed to Market

With the boom of AI in full swing, timing is everything. We can deliver a turnkey on-site power solution in as little as 12 months up to 100 MW.

Lower Your Capital Requirement

Eliminate the requirement for diesel backup generators. We will own, operate, and maintain these assets for their full life cycle at your facility.

Cleaner Backup

Our microgrid solutions are 98% cleaner compared to traditional tier-2 diesel backup generators.

Become a Power Partner in Your Community

These assets provide essential grid services to firm renewables and keep the lights on for everyone when the grid become resource constrained.

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The Problems RPower Helps Data Centers Solve

There are a number of challenges facing data centers that RPower is equipped to solve for our partners. The primary challenges include:

Severely Constrained Power Infrastructure

  • RPower will deploy your solution(s) in months, not years.
  • Utilities do not have generation and/or transmission capacity to bring large data center loads online for 36-72 months in key primary and secondary markets.
  • Generator OEMs are quoting significant lead times for traditional 2-3 MW diesel backup systems.

Tightening Capital Markets & Inflation

  • RPower will take the financial burdens of power infrastructure and backup generation off your plate.
  • Data center build costs have doubled from $6M/MW of IT load to more than $12M/MW in just the last several years.
  • The current state of capital markets has put additional pressure on costs.

Pressures to Decarbonize

  • RPower will partner with you and build onsite generation.
  • Continuing to deploy diesel backup generators with HVO fuels does not provide a pathway to full decarbonization. A “no generator” data center will rely on additional, dispatchable thermal generation being built elsewhere.
  • The most reliable and efficiently operated generation facility is the one built on or adjacent to your property.

Unfavorable Public Image + NIMBY-ism

  • RPower to reduce emissions and enable higher penetrations of renewable energy generation.
  • The data center industry has a PR problem, due in large part to their power needs, the associated environmental impact, and large-scale deployment of traditional “dirty” diesel generators.
  • Our solutions position our partners to build a more sustainable and reliable energy future for their facilities and for the communities they operate in.

Ensure The Power Needs of Your Business Operations

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