The collaboration will focus on providing high-efficiency and independent energy production
Caterpillar and Hunt Energy Company (Hunt Energy) have announced a long-term collaboration agreement to focus on providing high-efficiency, independent energy production
The collaboration will meet the needs of "always-on" data centres, ensuring reliability and performance is delivered.
Melissa Busen, senior vice president, Caterpillar Electric Power division, said: “Caterpillar is excited to continue to collaborate with Hunt Energy to deliver robust and efficient energy solutions for data centres."
“Hunt’s proven expertise in energy infrastructure complements Caterpillar’s leadership in power systems, enabling us to jointly develop scalable solutions that meet the high demands of reliability, uptime and performance critical to data centre operations.”
Caterpillar will utilise its portfolio of power solutions, including natural gas and diesel generation equipment, gas turbines, switchgear, controls, aftertreatment and engineering design services.
Caterpillar will also provide its monitoring and servicing capabilities, giving customers assurance in uninterrupted power delivery, with or without a connection to the power grid.
Hunt Energy will provide its expertise in infrastructure development, project financing and operational execution for data centre and distributed energy resource projects. It will also share its experience in battery energy storage (BESS) projects, having previously deployed 310MW of BESS solutions in the past four years.
The first project, expected to launch in Texas, is the beginning of a multi-year initiative to deliver up to 1GW of power generation capacity for data centres in North America, aiming to lay the foundation for global deployment in the future.
Hunter Hunt, CEO at Hunt Energy, said: “This partnership with Caterpillar represents a major step forward in our commitment to delivering innovative and flexible energy solutions. Starting in Texas, we’re laying the foundation for a new era of data centre power infrastructure.”
