Driving growth in New Zealand’s renewable energy sector
Enerhash Grid Share’s mission is to identify excess capacity and maximise its value for renewable energy producers in New Zealand, Australia and throughout Australasia. With new technology and game-changing innovation, we can reduce risk for renewable energy projects, and increase profitability. Optimising energy production with data centres is still a new solution in New Zealand, even though there are numerous international precedents demonstrating the benefits of investing in data centres. Enerhash Grid Share aims to lay the cornerstone for the entire industry with an affordable and viable solution for both energy producers and server owners.
Benefits of these synergies will also be made available by Enerhash Grid Share to server owners in the form of affordable electricity prices, system management, and maintenance services. In addition to flexibility, we strive to improve our value proposition for power producers constantly, so that the DATABOX can serve as an alternative to energy storage units.
Our goals for 2021 and beyond include setting up a network of data centres with a consumption of more than 5 MW, enabling enhancing profitability for server owners to enjoy profitability while achieving sustainability goals. In addition, we aim to map an additional 15 MW of excess capacity by the end of 2021. We also consider the parallel development of stable, corporate operations to be of paramount importance. Through our joint activities, we want to set an example in the global industry and encourage investment in renewable energy by providing a world class framework for the operation, infrastructure and technical services around responsive data centres.
A joint venture to drive renewable efficiencies
New Zealand’s Grid Share and Hungary’s Enerhash were motivated to join forces by a shared desire to innovate and drive efficiencies in their respective energy sectors. With complementary skills, shared ideals, and inspired by the scope of unfolding opportunities in their vastly different territories, Enerhash and Grid Share were destined to join forces.
Grid Share
In New Zealand, the unique challenges in the energy sector posed by geography, disparate population distributions, and generation assets, laid the landscape for solutions rooted in the respective experience of Craig Lusty and Sam Kivi. Craig brings years of experience building and commissioning industrial scale embedded networks and hybrid power plants in Australia and New Zealand. Sam has worked in cutting edge power electronics design and manufacture, leading teams creating innovative power conversion technologies coupled with emerging smart grid monitoring and control.
Together, Craig and Sam have a vision for solving New Zealand’s unique energy challenges that flips the script on the traditional supply-demand mindset with a simple principle: by deploying highly responsive data centres to maximise renewable productivity a more efficient, sustainable and affordable energy sector is available to the communities it serves. Grid Share brings on-ground local knowledge, strategic relationships and project management experience to make this vision a reality.
Enerhash
Brothers and Enerhash founders Balázs and Daniel Jogg recognised early on that blockchain technologies and innovations in the digital sector would bring important paradigm shifts and new challenges for the energy sector. To reap the benefits of these new technologies on a large scale, they set about developing solutions for their uniquely European energy context.
Daniel has extensive in-sector knowledge from his experience in energy trading, recognising untapped potential in the European energy markets. Balázs has worked across multiple industries digitising business processes to optimise efficiency and scalability. The brothers’ complementary skill sets drive the growth of a company with innovation at its core. Enerhash brings extensive supply chain relationships and experience building and operating their DATABOX data centres for power plant optimisation.
