Opportunities and challenges for data center demand response

2014 International Green Computing Conference, IGCC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wierman, Adam ^a   Liu, Zhenhua ^a   Liu, Iris ^a   Mohsenian Rad, Hamed ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SMART POWER GRIDS; SURVEYS;

DATA CENTERS; DEMAND RESPONSE; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY EFFICIENT; MULTIPLE AREAS; PAPER SURVEYS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SMART GRID;

GREEN COMPUTING;

EID: 84924365614     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGCC.2014.7039172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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