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Power On North America: evaluating behind-the-meter trade offs for data centers
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Recent highlights from the North American power and renewables sector: trade offs for BTM power, headwinds for sodium-ion batteries, why DERs are entering prime time, new energy storage opportunities in Mexico
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Power On: Recent highlights from the North America power and renewables sector
- Executive summary
- 1. Data centre stakeholders are making big bets on the viability of around-the-meter generation for large loads, but the model carries key operational and financial risks
- Figure 1: The number of sites with onsite generation and grid capacity served BTM
- 2. Despite sodium-ion’s renewed popularity, lithium is expected to comprise over 90% of US ESS installations through the next 10 years
- Figure 2: Global ESS installations technology share
- 3 . DERs will play a central role in evolving the US grid into a new era of rapid demand growth
- Figure 3: US residential storage deployed by company, 2025
- 4 . Mexico's new storage regulations unlock revenue opportunities while simultaneously imposing rigid, systemic reliability mandates and long-term liabilities
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