Unlocking our energy productivity and renewable potential

whitePaper | June 22, 2022

Siemens Energy is fully committed to supporting the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. For more than 150 years we have been working on the transformation of the energy world. Our ambition as Siemens Energy is to achieve climate neutrality in our own operations by 2030 and to cover 100% of our own electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2023.

whitePaper | October 6, 2022

The findings and insights of this white paper have been developed through a collaborative effort among multiple stakeholders from across the Houston region. The Greater Houston Partnership (the Partnership) would like to thank its member companies, community partners, and academic collaborators for providing invaluable insight throughout the development of this report. We would also like to express our appreciation to McKinsey & Company for providing research and analysis, including Kassia Yanosek, Dan Stephens, Hyder Kazimi, Ravi Mukkamala, Chris Giuffreda, Ginna Arora, Dorianne Erazo, and David Catalano. We would also like to thank Eric Mullins, Bobby Tudor, Bob Harvey, Scott Nyquist, and Jane Stricker from the Houston Energy Transition Initiative (HETI) for their central roles in crafting this document.

whitePaper | June 16, 2022

Driving power sector emissions down to zero is essential to achieve a net-zero economy. The electrification of energy demand in all other sectors is only effective under the assumption that power sector emissions fall to zero. A 2017 meta analysis of power sector models found that while creating a net-zero power system based solely on variable renewable power was possible, this would require a significant overbuild of capacity to ensure reliable power supply. Power systems based solely on variable renewables were several times more expensive than systems where 80% of power was supplied by variable renewables.

whitePaper | May 19, 2022

Data centers leave a significant carbon footprint and, as the need for these mission critical facilities continues to surge, the current trajectory is toward increasing power use and greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions can contribute to extreme weather and put the health of our planet at risk. There is growing demand from both the public and industry to reduce the environmental impact of all businesses — sustainability has moved into the corporate domain and, due to regulations and the cost implications of reducing a carbon footprint, it can be a hot button issue.

whitePaper | March 17, 2022

As rising numbers of inverter-based resources (IBRs) are deployed in power systems around the world, their role on the grid is changing and the services needed from them have evolved. In order to maintain grid stability and reliability, IBRs need to provide some of the services currently (or formerly) provided by synchronous generators. Interconnection standards already include requirements for IBRs to have the capability to provide some of these services—such as frequency and voltage support—and the procurement and deployment of the services can be implemented either as mandatory interconnection requirements or as market products

whitePaper | October 23, 2022

Data centers today are estimated to constitute nearly 2% of global energy consumption. The decade-old fear of runaway growth in data center energy consumption hasn’t occurred. Hyperscale cloud service providers (CSPs) have largely managed that concern, with the help of industry vendors, through IT virtualization and higher utilization of power and thermal management infrastructure. At the same time, enterprises, usually less efficient than CSPs at managing data centers, have transitioned many of their workloads and applications to the cloud.