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ICT, energy and data centers; a holistic view

John PostManaging director Green IT Amsterdam regionBoard TKI SWITCH2SmartGrids

Power and pollution, the bad and the ugly

European ambitions & reality

Dutch ambitions & reality

Consortium Green IT Amsterdam region

Greening of IT and greening by IT

Agenda

Energy in Europe, two parallel trends

Larger energy companies. Large power plants on large

distance from energy consumer.

More exchange of energy across national borders.

Large number of small power plants (distributed generation, microgrids), renewables, new companies, often small and local.

New forms of cooperation, participation of end users.

Europeanization: Localisation

2010 2030 2050

The Dutch….

… a conducive innovation environment Mindset of creativity, collaboration

and reliability Strong and open consultation and

concensus model Striving for open standards and

open source

Strong citizen involvement Many citizen initiatives, Privacy

conciousness, various living labs

Unbundling of TSO, DSO, production/supply

Well developed gas industry

Integrative approach to energy cariers Multi utility, Multi stakeholder

Strong government involvement Well developed PPPs: Amsterdam

Smart City, innovation policy

The Dutch characteristics

International grid, aka strong grid

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Local smart grid

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Issues: Local balancing New metering and financial

systems (un)predictability Power to the people

Smart Grids: status in NL

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Development of knowledge and products: PowerMatcher, Power Router, Smart Cable Guard, SASensor, etc.

First demonstration projects: Smart Storage, PowerMatching City, GROWders, etc.

Large-scale pilots are starting: Smart City A’dam, Easy Street, Couperus, Smart Energy Collective, etc.

Smart Grid Vehicle-to-Grid (V2X

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Breakthrough to a broader societal and economical implementation of smart grids. Using electric vehicles powered by locally produced, renewable energy to create a balanced energy system and sustainable mobility

Amsterdam participation in Smart Grids projects (1)

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Amsterdam and data centers as a growing market

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Ambitions Amsterdam

households enterprises traffic & transport

Public-private network organisation (founded June 2010).

Contribute to reducing 40% CO2 in 2025 in Amsterdam

Ambitions realized by: Greening of IT

Realising energy savings within the ICT sector Greening by IT

Innovative use of ICT for the reduction of CO2 emissions in other sectors

Green IT Economy Creating new business opportunities with

Green IT

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Green Deal data centers

Agreement between the Dutch Government, the City of Amsterdam and Green IT Amsterdam Region

Creation of a data center improvement package Coordinate with:

Nederland ICT NL Agency (AgentschapNL): working group Datacenter Cooling City of Amsterdam: EPP and PUE regulations

Activities: Clustering of best practices (including feasibility aspects, planning, costs, etc) Offering quick scans

Foundation for improving de-facto standard of data center energy efficiency in the Netherlands

Source: GreenIT Amsterdam region

Self-sufficient

Greening of IT

Self-sufficientIncl. renewable energy

The NYT DC

Participation Smart grid

Deviation from a common trend

Source: de kas als energiebron, stichting innovatie glastuinbouw

On horticulture: Deviation in thinking on renewable energy can be found in turning around the supply of heath and cold processes to the horticulturist: Do not generate the energy needed for heating by degrading high value heath, but by upgrading low value heath with electrival water pumps in combination with short and long term storage”

Smart grids

Thank you

John Post

Managing Director Consortium Green IT Amsterdam regioBoard TKI SWITCH2SmartGrids

Chairman Platform Open Data NederlandEmail: john@john-post.nlTwitter: bikerspeedwell