NCCETC webinar on onsite energy for data centers

NCCETC led a webinar on onsite energy generation for data centers on March 5, 2026.

• Main announcement: The NC Clean Energy Technology Center’s CPIE team, in partnership with the DOE Southeast Onsite Energy TAP, hosted a webinar presenting onsite energy technologies (battery storage, CHP, fuel cells, geothermal, solar PV, thermal storage, waste heat to power, wind, etc.) for data centers; featured speakers included Isaac Panzarella (DOE Southeast Onsite Energy TAP / NCCETC), Vinnie Figlioli (Spectrum Engineers), and David Gray (Joule Power). The webinar emphasized the role of onsite generation where grid capacity is constrained and presented a benefits table mapping technologies to attributes for data centers.
• Background and concrete details: The North Carolina Energy Policy Task Force interim report (Feb 2026) cited 128 planned data center projects with 37 gigawatts of expected demand in NC; DELTa (created by SEPA and NCCETC) was reported as representing 33 states, 65 tariffs, and 57 electric utilities as of November 2025. Joule Power discussed a Data Center Campus in Central Utah, describing site fuel access (two large pipelines) and chosen molecular-to-electric conversion (reciprocating motors); the next NCCETC webinar (Q3) “Planning for a Sustainable Fleet” is scheduled for June 23, 2026 at 2:00pm with Leke Fleet Services.