Dispatchable power: how data centre microgrids can accelerate Europe’s energy transition

Episode 25 November 11, 2025 00:33:28
Dispatchable power: how data centre microgrids can accelerate Europe’s energy transition
Energy Transitions
Dispatchable power: how data centre microgrids can accelerate Europe’s energy transition

Nov 11 2025 | 00:33:28

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Pamela Largue

Show Notes

In the latest episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue speaks to Ben Pritchard, CEO of AVK, and Malin Östman, Vice President, Strategy & Business Development at Wärtsilä Energy, about how this can be achieved and the role that data centre microgrids can play as a scalable, practical solution to power constraints and grid instability.

Pritchard and Östman elaborate on AVK and Wärtsilä’s new research paper, Data centre dispatchable capacity: a major opportunity for Europe’s energy transition, which models different energy scenarios for powering data centres, and provides insights into the optimal configuration of renewables, batteries, and dispatchable engines.

This podcast is brought to you in partnership with AVK. 

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