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Toward a Multilateral ASEAN Electricity Market: Lessons from European Market Coupling

How can ASEAN move beyond bilateral power deals? This article examines European market coupling, shared grid data and capacity calculation.

Harmonizing Grid Codes: The Technical Key to Regional Power Integration

Why can a built interconnector still face limits? ASEAN grid code harmonization must address protection settings, fault clearing and data exchange.

The Economic and Reliability Case for Connecting Southeast Asia’s Electricity Systems

Hydropower in Laos and thermal generation elsewhere create scope for power trade. The article weighs economic, reliability and regulatory barriers.

How Utilities Forecast Data Center Load Growth

How do utilities forecast data center load? This article explains project milestones, probability-weighted demand, peak impacts, and planning horizons.

Why Data Center Grid Connections Take So Long

Why do data centers spend years in the interconnection queue? The answer often lies in transmission upgrades, substations, equipment and commissioning.

How Behind-the-Meter Generation Is Changing the Data Center–Utility Relationship

Behind-the-meter generation reduces data center grid draw, but utilities still reserve backup capacity. The article examines tariffs, load steps, and cost recovery.

The Power and Cooling Challenges of High-Density AI Server Racks

AI server rack power cooling links electrical delivery with thermal design. See how direct-to-chip systems, CDUs and residual airflow shape operations.

Long-Duration Storage Technologies: Comparing Flow Batteries, Iron-Air, and Hydrogen

How do flow batteries, iron-air and hydrogen differ? Compare efficiency, duration, land use, infrastructure and the market conditions shaping each option.

Beyond Power Purchase Agreements: The Challenges of 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy for Data Centers

Hourly matching demands more than annual renewable contracts. See how storage, firm clean power, grid limits and verification shape data center procurement.

Siting Data Centers: How Electricity Availability and Grid Constraints Shape Location Decisions

Why do substations, high-voltage connections, and network headroom shape data center sites? The trade-offs behind grid-led location decisions.

Why Data Center Electricity Demand Is Surging and What It Means for Power Systems

AI workloads are driving data center electricity demand upward. The article explains how flat, concentrated loads affect transmission, generation and markets.

Why Electricity Demand Is Growing Again: Electrification and the Grid

Electricity demand growth is returning as EVs, heat pumps and industry electrify. See why peak demand and local transformers matter more than annual energy.