Data center planning and consulting services
From site selection to ensuring reliable energy and improving system efficiency, GE Vernova's Consulting Services team has the expertise and solutions to meet your data center needs.
Addressing the data center trilemma
Capabilities to support your data center projects
Data centers are faced with the demand for fast, reliable, and sustainable power to efficiently meet operational needs and reduce environmental impact. Our Consulting Services team offers innovative solutions to identify optimal data center sites, minimize grid connection risks, and enhance site integration—helping you increase project output and revenue.
We offer a range of studies and services to support your data center journey, including:
Areas of focus
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With all these areas of expertise inhouse, we can provide data center assessments that address your specific goals.
How to interconnect and integrate
Studies offered: Interconnection feasibility and application, system stability analysis, transmission system analysis, power system capacity and resilience, injection analysis, congestion and curtailment analysis
- Interconnection evaluation
Assist with the design, regulatory process, and steps needed to successfully interconnect your data center with the power grid.
- Reliability and stability
Conduct power flow and contingency analyses, as well as evaluate power generation and transient stability to help ensure reliable operation.
Where to build next
- Screen sites
Evaluate potential sites based on renewable energy availability, cost factors, and accessibility.
- Negotiate
Help develop pricing strategies and perform due diligence on suppliers to secure the best deals.
How to make the most of your operations
Studies offered: Revenue and system benefit analysis, power system configuration and sizing
- Cost efficiency
Strategies to own or buy energy resources, whether physical or financial (hedging), to reduce costs.
- Reliability
Refine backup power sizes and transition from diesel to renewable options, including microgrid solutions
- Validation
Assessments to verify how green your energy usage is, on an annual, monthly, or hourly basis.
- Improvement
Identify opportunities for technological upgrades and other improvements to increase clean energy use.
Customer story
Enhancing data center site selection
The challenge
A U.S. customer needed a strategic approach to identify ideal data center sites with sufficient power capacity, minimal transmission risk, and long-term sustainability. The goal was to meet growing demands for speed and reliability while managing complex requirements related to grid stability, power flow, and infrastructure.
The solution
GE Vernova’s Consulting Services team provided a comprehensive site screening analysis that resulted in a ranked scorecard of optimal U.S. locations and a report identifying opportunities and potential risks for efficient, reliable, and sustainable data center operations.
Power genereation capacity evaluation
Grid congestion assessment
Wholesale price analysis
Carbon intensity study
Load interconnection feasibility studies
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