Silicon Valley Power - Data Center Optimization Program

Summary

Silicon Valley Power is providing incentives for data centers in their service territory to improve their energy efficiency. Silicon Valley Power is primarily targeting opportunities to improve the cooling systems of data centers with an area of approximately 5,000 - 10,000 square feet. Eligible sites can have a cooling operations assessment performed by qualified engineering professionals at no cost. If opportunities exist, the data center may be eligible for financial incentives to improve their cooling systems, and to add variable frequency drives to scale fan energy use as a function of cooling load. Incentives are also available for server virtualization. Server virtualization consolidates several physical servers into a single server running several virtual operating systems, which can greatly reduce energy usage.