Rolls-Royce provides emergency power to Japanese data centre
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Power solutions company Rolls-Royce is supplying its mtu emergency gensets to a global provider of hyperscale data center solutions in the case of potential power grid failures.
A total of 31 mtu emergency gensets and a complete mtu EnergetIQ control system will be provided to the hyperscale data center located near Osaka.
According to Rolls-Royce, this is one of the largest data centres in Japan with a designed capacity of 45.9MW.
The fully redundant mtu EnergetIQ Manager monitors both incoming grid connections and the status of all generators within the plant.
Should a grid failure occur, the emergency diesel generators are started, regulating the supply of electricity to consumers and ensuring that the load is transferred back to the grid.
The generators are stopped when the grid is stable again.
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Thus far, Rolls-Royce Solutions Japan has installed and commissioned eight of the 31 container gensets, which are based on 20-cylinder mtu Series 4000 engines.
The remaining emergency generators will be added gradually as the data center’s capacity increases.
The mtu containers compactly contain the diesel engine with a generator, a switchgear and include the mtu EnergetIQ control and monitoring system.
According to Mordor Intelligence, Japan is one of the fastest growing digital content delivery markets in Asia, driven by the increasing use of mobile devices and the adoption of cloud technologies.
Rolls-Royce has supplied a total capacity of approximately 5GWe of emergency generators to the global data center market.
