PROFILE /Data Centers
Slash your data center's
peak-time demand
to help secure power and lower its cost
Data centers’ power needs often require additional capacity from the local grid. By reducing demand during peak hours, a data center can significantly mitigate this need and associated costs while helping keep the grid stable for the community.
Meet growing capacity needs with minimal investment
Even the most energy-efficient data centers struggle to reduce energy costs and peak-time loads while meeting cooling needs. In addition, while data centers typically maintain consistent energy usage, the grid needs all available capacity during peak hours. Data centers can help by freeing up peak time capacity using cold energy from the IceBrick system instead of the grid while reducing costs and earning revenue in the process.
The IceBrick® allows you to store low-cost and clean energy by charging during off-peak hours when prices and emissions are low and the grid has surplus capacity. Then, when prices and emissions go up with demand, and the grid capacity stretches to its limits, the IceBrick system can discharge the stored cold energy to provide lower stress on the grid, while avoiding high prices and emissions, and even generate revenue for providing demand management service, all while maintaining uninterrupted, reliable cooling.
The IceBrick® helps you significantly reduce energy costs, and enhance overall resilience.
The compact and modular IceBrick® packs some powerful benefits
Savings
Charge with low-cost electricity and discharge per grid or price signals to earn money or reduce costs
Resilience
Add redundancy to your cooling operations
Value
Enjoy longer equipment life and add competitive edge to any property at no up-front cost
Zero-carbon
Use ice to cool your building in place of electricity when renewable energy isn’t available
Value
Enjoy longer equipment life and add competitive edge to any property at no up-front cost
How It Works
The core of the IceBrick® system consists of an array of patented, modular energy storage cells, customized to your building. The system is managed by an advanced on-site controller, for energy flow management, and a cloud-based management and optimization platform for performance control, grid-integration, and reporting.
Use Cases
Cutting Energy Costs
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Adding Redundancy
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Energy Efficiency
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Investment Deferral
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Cutting Carbon Emissions
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