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Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

Academic department in Durham, North CarolinaWikipedia

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Sep 16, 2026

David RobertsHOST
26:02
But like your big battery, your big LFP battery, if, you know, if the grid goes out and you have to switch to the battery to reduce power draw, that's gonna run out at some point, in four hours, as I understand it, if you're running the whole data center.
David RobertsHOST
26:17
And now, of course, I read the Duke paper that everybody, the Nicholas Institute paper that everybody references, and one, [chuckles] one of the things that the Duke paper says is that the average call from a utility to a data center to reduce power is, like, two hours, is less than four hours.
David RobertsHOST
26:35
But then my question is, what if you have, like, a heat dome that lasts for a week, and so every afternoon you're called on to reduce, and then you have to recharge the battery after it goes down, but, like, the heat dome is there the whole time, and then, like, the second day you're starting from 60%, the third day you're starting from 40%.
David RobertsHOST
26:57
At what point does the battery run out and the tenant have to start cutting back on compute? How much duration can you handle, I guess, is what I'm asking.
speaker_0HOST
0:11
Here are today's nine stories.
speaker_1HOST
0:14
Duke's Nicholas Institute models costly restart of net zero after Trump.
speaker_1HOST
0:19
Duke University's Nicholas Institute has released a new policy brief finding that the Trump administration's abandonment of any climate mitigation efforts has made any return to such policies more expensive.
speaker_0HOST
0:30
MISO regulatory group takes break from DER survey, explores data exchange platform.
speaker_0HOST
0:37
The Organization of MISO States will not conduct its annual survey quantifying distributed energy resources across the MISO footprint in twenty twenty-six while it evaluates how to modernize it and, in a related effort, explores the creation of a centralized DER data exchange platform.

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