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Grid Care describes Portland General Electric Hillsboro case; presenters say flexibility freed hundreds of megawatts

Utah Public Service Commission · March 17, 2026
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Grid Care told commissioners it helped Portland General Electric unlock about 400 MW of queued data‑center requests in the Hillsboro area using qualified flexibility, and presented a model claiming large economic value from that unlocked capacity.

Grid Care presented a public case study from Portland General Electric in Hillsboro, Ore., where the company said five queued data centers representing roughly 400 megawatts of requested capacity were enabled under a qualified‑flexibility approach.

Ran Rajikop described the Hillsboro queue and how Grid Care partnered with PGE to quantify hours‑of‑service, qualify customer resources and stage delivery. "We were able to provide the utility with the following answer: with a certain number of hours of flexibility,…

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