The Zero-Carbon Cloud: High-Value, Dispatchable Demand for Renewable Power Generators

By Andrew A. Chien, R. Wolski, Fan Yang. 2015

38 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Variability is an ongoing challenge to growth of large-scale renewable power generation, posing challenges for the power grid and ambitious renewable portfolio standards. The authors propose Zero-Carbon Cloud (ZCCloud), a new high-value, dispatchable demand for renewables that improves their economic viability. Initial studies show that ZCCloud can create high-value computing resources with payback periods of just a few years.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, ML Systems & Hardware, Social Sciences & Humanities

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Young Geun Kim
2. Carole-Jean Wu
3. Fan Yang
4. Andrew A. Chien
5. Udit Gupta
6. Hsien-Hsin S. Lee
7. Gu-Yeon Wei
8. David M. Brooks

In Information Systems

1. Fan Yang
2. Carole-Jean Wu
3. Andrew A. Chien
4. David M. Brooks
5. Gu-Yeon Wei

In ML Systems & Hardware

1. Young Geun Kim
2. Carole-Jean Wu
3. Gu-Yeon Wei
4. Andrew A. Chien
5. Fan Yang
6. David M. Brooks
7. Udit Gupta

In Social Sciences & Humanities

1. Andrew A. Chien
2. Fan Yang
3. Young Geun Kim
4. David M. Brooks
5. Sylvia Lee
6. Jordan Tse
7. Hsien-Hsin S. Lee
8. Gu-Yeon Wei

Citations in the corpus

• Chasing Carbon: The Elusive Environmental Footprint of Computing (2020, background): “Note, the decrease in net operational carbon emissions from using renewable energy is not the same as the data center being powered exclusively with renewable energy at all times [17]–[19].”
• Large-Scale and Extreme-Scale Computing with Stranded Green Power: Opportunities and Costs (2017, methodology): “7M/unit (power price=$70/MWh) Cz;DCF $2M/unit (Vendor quote in [1]) $1.”