Had a great chat with Quentin 'Q' Scrimshire in Modo Energy's lovely Manhattan offices when I was in town - a few more insights about Piclo #ACE model too. Take a look!
Our CEO James Johnston has been chatting to Modo Energy Modo Energy - USA’s Quentin 'Q' Scrimshire on how local flexibility and markets can unlock DER capacity to solve grid constraints, tackle connection queues and even accelerate data centre growth. 🌍 Global scaling of flexibility - Piclo now operates across the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. - 1GW of registered assets across 50 US states and 30+ GW in the UK. - Focus on building a single global platform with modular capabilities to adapt to regional energy markets. ⚡ Introducing Project ACE (Accelerated Community Energy) - A new model where data centres fund local virtual power plants. - Just 3% of data centre CapEx can accelerate grid connections by months. - This unlocks private capital to solve public grid constraints and stimulate new flexibility. Want to listen to the full episode? Links in comments below 👇
Director at Aequitas Global
2wSo it's very much in the interests of tech companies with major energy demands (AI) to stump up the cash for network infrastructure that will enable everyone connected to the grid to become a supplier of energy not just a consumer. Is that right? I recently watched 'BlackBerry' on Netflix and their genius was solving the same problem of load capacity for connecting to the internet via the old phone networks. Fascinating!