Greensdas leveraging power adaption collaboration between energy provider and data centres

Data centres, due to their significant energy use and highly automated IT infrastructure, are excellent candidates to participate in demand response programs. However, the major inconvenience of today´s electricity tariffs between energy provider and its customers is their lack of flexibility, which renders demand response programs difficult to realise. In this paper, we propose a new supply demand agreement in order to foster power adaption (i.e. increase/decrease) collaboration between energy provider and data centres. To this end, we introduce contractual terms and based on those we propose reward and penalty schemes. Furthermore, we provide a signalling scheme which defines the communication requirements necessary to enable power adaption collaboration. Finally, we present a scheduling policy which helps the energy provider to request data centres in a fair manner for power adaption.