Big Tech Companies Say They Need Resilience and Clean Energy. How Microgrids Help

Lisa Cohn, Microgrid Knowledge, August 4, 2025

Despite the phase out of wind and solar investment tax credits in the OBBA, big companies such as Amazon are staying on tract to deploy renewables to meet surging power demand requirements. Microgrids and other DERs not only provide resilience but yield a return on investment by participating in utility programs that lower peak demand. One data center manager estimated that a one hour outage costs the company a million dollars and that the back-up needs to be clean energy. Read full article on MicrogridKnowledge.com

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