There has been a lot of anxiety among technological companies and political decision -makers on an imminent food shortage on the network due in large part to the increase in AI. But what is less known is that there are terawatts of new capacities waiting to be approved for connection to the grid, and the bureaucracy is to be greatly contributed to solving the problem.
In the United States, all grid operators are faced with similar arrears, but few are as significant as that of PJM, which manages the flow of electricity in the States of the Atlantic, Ohio and East Kentucky.
Now Google and PJM hope that AI can help speed things up.
The two organizations announcement On Thursday, a partnership, as well as the “Moonshot” alphabet tapestry, to develop models of AI to rationalize the key parts of the application process on both sides of the transaction. They will obtain assistance for data verification and will submit projects via new centralized planning tools, which will also help PJM analyze the best way to integrate variable food sources such as renewable energies.
Due to the overvoltage of AI demand, technological companies have run to guarantee generation capacity. Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft have all invested in where they are committed to buying large quantities of nuclear energy. But they also regularly removed solar energy in large quantities.
The interconnection problem is of course, but solving it could reduce concerns about undernourished data centers. Nationally, 2.6 generation capacity terawatts await approval, according to at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. It is double what each combined American power station is capable of generating today.
PJM’s queue is by far the longest. There are more than 3,000 active requests to connect 286.7 capacity gigawatts in the region, according to At the Berkeley laboratory. Exceeded, the organization has ceased to accept applications for new connections in 2022 and will not examine new requests before mid-2026.
Renewable energies have been the most penalized by the sclerotic process.
At the national level, more than 1 terawatt each of solar energy and storage awaits authorization to send electrons to the grid. Even the region of the PJM queue, which is generally not considered as a renewable development center, is dominated by the two clean energy sources: only 2.4% of candidates are natural gas power plants.
The grid managed by PJM has always been dominated by fossil fuels. Over the past decade, the natural gas power plants have moved coal because hydraulic fracturing has lowered gas costs. The grid operator has also recently developed a New approval process This statement of criticism allows fossil power plants to unjust the line unjustly before renewable projects.
By revealing the partnership with Google, the executive vice-president of the PJM, Aftab Khan, said that the organization network will remain “in agnostic fuel”, according to to E & E News. Meanwhile, Google’s spokesperson Amanda Peterson Corio argued that he was “engaged in our objectives to decarbonize our electric footprint”.
