NYSERDA Data Center Efficiency Programs

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NYSERDAData Center Efficiency Programs

• NYS Forum
• IT Greening Conference
• April 30, 2009

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What is NYSERDA?

• New York State Energy Research and Development
  Authority
• Public benefit corporation
• Established by the New York State Legislature in
  1975
• NYSERDA is tasked to address the States energy
  environmental challenges

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EEPSEnergy Efficiency Portfolio Standard

• 15 x 15
• 15 energy consumption reduction by 2015
• NYSERDA Program
• 93 Million over 3 years for Industrial and
  Process Efficiency electricity savings.
  Includes
• Manufacturing
• Data Centers
• 840,000 MWh savings goal

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Industrial Process and Data Centers

• Similar load shape
• Process-oriented
• Economic development impact
• Mission critical
• Load growth potential

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IT Sector in New York State

• Represents significant load, particularly
  downstate
• LBNL Study Found
• NY DC Energy Use 4.50 Billion kWh/year
• NY DC Energy Costs 594 Million/year
• NY DC of Tot. NY CI Electric Use 5.89
• IBM Research shows
• IT energy expense will grow 35 in next 5 years
• US DCs consume more electricity than the
  country of Mexico
• 100 units of energy production yields 3 units of
  productive computing

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Data Center Approach

• Flexibility
• Technology Life Cycle
• RD
• Market Transformation
• Deployment
• Building Green Data Center Capacity
• Optimizing Existing Assets
• Improvements to IT and computing efficiency
• Support system efficiency

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What can we offer?

• Customers are focused on core business
• Technical Assistance
• Site and process specific
• Customized engineering support
• Flexible Technical Assistance (FlexTech) Program
• Financial Incentives
• Deployment
• Offset cost of installed improvement measures
• Based on energy savings

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FlexTech Technical Assistance
Objective Provide cost-shared engineering studies

• Feasibility Studies
• CFD Modeling
• Thermal imaging
• Applications management
• CHP/Renewables
• Energy Advisor Consulting

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Flexible Technical Assistance (FlexTech)

• Project starts with a phone call to NYSERDA
• Customer chooses from one of 35 engineering firms
  under contract with NYSERDA
• NYSERDA pays the engineer 50, Customer pays the
  remaining 50

Technical Assistance

• Customer submits a 3-page application and
  detailed scope of work
• Customer uses their own engineer
• Customer pays the engineer and NYSERDA reimburses
  customer 50 upon approval of a final report
• FUNDING 50 Cost share up to 1 million over 5
  years

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Performance-Based Incentives

• Incentive is paid based on verified energy
  savings (0.12/kWh upstate, 0.16/kWh in Con
  Edison)
• New construction or existing assests
• 50 of project costs up to 5 million per project
• All projects require a detailed engineering
  analysis to determine savings
• Large projects require MV
• Incentives for energy saving process improvements
• Based on energy use per unit of data processed
  before and after improvement

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Support System Efficiency

• Cooling
• Air flow management
• Utilization of waste heat
• UPS System upgrades

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IT and Computing Efficiency

• Virtualization
• Next generation servers
• Applications management
• Server load prioritization
• and optimization

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Focus on Industrial and Process

• Targeted sector outreach
• Includes data centers
• Build marketplace for data center efficiency
• Scope of services
• Direct outreach to sector customers
• Training
• Engage expertise
• Market research

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Further NYSERDA Assistance
www.nyserda.org
Data Center Team Flex Tech Power Process Scott
Smith 518-862-1090 ext 3344 sas_at_nyserda.org
Chris Stump 518-862-1090 ext 3496
ces_at_nyserda.org Sandy Hwang 212-971-5342 ext
3009 sh2_at_nyserda.org Research
Development Joseph Borowiec 518-862-1090 ext 3381
jcb_at_nyserda.org Market Transformation Susan
Andrews 518-862-1090 ext 3234 sta_at_nyserda.org