Three year deal will see Voltus supply capacity from energy assets to Google operations across PJM grid

A new deal between Google and Voltus will take advantage of flexibility on the grid.

Google has worked to make its own data centers flexible, but reasons it is often faster and more cost effective to pay other customers to shift their electricity usage, an executive told Utility Dive.

Voltus featured as Google's demand-response partner in a newly announced 3-year deal that could create up to 100 megawatts of capacity in PJM.

Voltus will procure up to 100 MW of distributed flexible capacity for data centers in PJM.

Today, Google and Voltus announced a three-year agreement to unlock up to 100 megawatts (MW) of new electricity capacity from flexible distributed energy resources in the PJM grid region, which serves 67 million people in the United States.

A new smart energy partnership between the UK's Octopus Energy and the US's Voltus is set to address the surge in electricity demand across US data centres

The deal will add residential assets to Voltus’s portfolio, expanding options for data centers in key markets.

“We started leaning into complexity as a strength. The rules change, customers change, markets change, and instead of fighting that we decided to design for it. We wanted adaptability to be our superpower.”

In this Energy Changemakers episode, host Elisa Wood sits down with Voltus's Adam Scarsella, to explore a new approach to accelerating data center interconnection: Bring Your Own Capacity (BYOC).