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Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Presented toTechnologies and Practices for Efficient & Reliable Data Centers
Inside the Data Center: Opportunities for Energy Efficiency
Mark BramfittSunnyvale, CaliforniaDecember 11, 2006
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Why Look In The White Room?
It’s where the energy use is located!
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Energy Multiplier Effect
Saving energy in the data center space can result in equivalent savings at the cooling plant level.
Depending on the type of cooling system, a kWh of heat load in the center drives an additional 0.75 to 1.25 kWh of cooling system energy use.
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Spectrum of Energy Efficiency Measures
Computing EquipmentServersData Storage
Power Distribution and ConditioningUPSDirect Current
Inside The Room CoolingCRAC’sAirflow Management and Control Direct Liquid CoolingEquipment Cabinets
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Computing Equipment
Premium-efficiency equipmentServersData storage devicesOthers
On-board power supplies80+
Virtualization/ConsolidationServersData storage
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Premium Efficiency Equipment
It is very challenging for:
Customers to select equipment
PG&E to develop incentive program
Why?
Equipment makers list performance metrics (zero to 60, max speed) but not energy performance (mpg)
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Who Has Premium Equipment?
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What To Do?
The industry is hashing out standard performance tests and reporting, through SPEC committee.
PG&E has, can, and will pay incentives for rip&replace/refresh projects, based on a calculation model.
PG&E will look to debut a deemed-savings program in 2007.
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Computing Equipment – Power Supplies
PG&E has provided funding for a project to extend the 80+ power supply program into the data center computing equipment market.
Program will pay equipment manufacturers directly to specify high performance power supplies in their equipment.
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Virtualization!
Wow!
In layman’s terms – a primarily software-based technology that allows for much higher equipment utilization rates, leading to…
…equipment consolidation…
…and even “energy management” of remaining equipment.
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Virtualization
Typically involves a survey of equipment and utilization rates using a software tool
Recommends strategies for migrating platforms/applications/workloads to “virtual machines” hosted on consolidated computing equipment
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Virtualization - Incentives
Complete an ‟audit” of the following:
existing equipment
prediction of remaining equipment
Calculate energy savings based on de-rated nameplate data
PG&E provides a calculation spreadsheet for vendors and customers
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Virtualization Calculator
Predicts energy savings from equipment consolidation
Can work for servers and/or data storage consolidation
Predicts savings from reduced cooling load
Predicts impacts to UPS
Available from HTEE Team
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Power Distribution & Conditioning
Premium-efficiency UPS
Direct current power distribution
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Premium-Efficiency UPS
Consider moving from:Standard-efficiency double-conversion to premium-efficiency or Delta conversion (APC) or Rotary
Consider:
Systems with modular configuration to match loads
Be cognizant of:
Loading and efficiency curves
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Direct Current Distribution
Eliminate stages of DC/AC/DC power conversion by delivering direct current from the UPS directly to the racks
Demonstrated by LBNL and industry partners
Potential savings of 10% to 20% of overall power conversion/delivery losses
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Cooling – Inside the Data Center
CRAC’s
Efficiency, VFD fans
Controls
End-of-row, integrated
Airflow Management and Control
Adaptive cooling control
Cabinets and directed airflow
Retro-commissioning measures
Liquid Cooling
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CRAC’s
Specify new or replacement CRAC’s with SEER ratings higher than equivalent Title 24 standards.
Specify new or retrofit existing CRAC’s with VSD fans to allow for better airflow management.
Some manufacturers promoting CRAC’s with closer proximity to racks.
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Airflow Management
Several companies is offering new adaptive airflow control systems. Generally taking temperature readings at the equipment level and applying an algorithm to control CRAC’s
PG&E/QuEST DCCCP
HP’s Dynamic Smart Cooling
IBM’s CoolBlue
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Airflow Management - Physical
Consider a variety of technologies to manage airflow:
Ducted cabinets, with or without integral fans and/or cooling coils
End-of-row air containment
Direct ducting of airstreams
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Airflow Management - RCx
Variety of low- and no-cost measures:
Reorienting equipment to hot aisle/ cold aisle configuration
Fixing holes in raised floor
Under floor cable management
Floor grate tile relocation
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Airflow Management - Incentives
Key challenge:
Accurately calculate predicted energy savings from any single measure or package of measures
Solution:
Pre- and post-measurement of direct energy savings
The Real Solution:
Adaptive airflow control systems to the rescue
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Technical Support
Dependent on your commitment, PG&E can provide technical assistance to evaluate the energy impacts of measures you are considering of implementing.
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Financial Incentives
Key points:You must file an application and get approval before you start your project.Application and supporting calculation needed.Before and after metering is an alternative route.PG&E reserves the right to inspect before and after conditions.New construction
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Financial Incentives - Limits
Generally 8 cents per kWh of annual energy savings for computing equipment savings, up to 14 cents per kWh for cooling system upgrades.
Limited to no more than half of project cost.
$4MM annual per site (meter) cap!
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On the Horizon
Deemed savings approach for premium efficiency computing equipment, based on industry standardsVariety of liquid cooling strategies: cabinet level and component levelThin-client systems for distributed computingDemand response strategies using IT scheduling softwareSelf generation directly feeding DC side of UPS!
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PG&E Support
Technical assistance to scope out energy impacts of projects you are considering
Support for completing financial incentive applications
How to access? Contact your:
PG&E Account Representative
PG&E High Tech Energy Efficiency Team
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Closing
PG&E has significantly expanded the scope of product and service offerings for data centers, particularly in the realm of inside-the-data-center energy efficiency measures.
On the basis of market interest, we have reserved program funding of ~$25M for 2006-2008 for this segment.
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