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Sustainability, Risk, and Reporting

BESS

Battery Energy Storage System stores energy for later discharge. In data centers, BESS can support UPS functions, peak management, backup, demand response, renewable integration, or grid services depending on design and interconnection.

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Gross lease

Gross lease is a lease structure where rent includes most operating expenses, subject to negotiated details. It can make budgeting simpler for tenants but shifts expense risk to the landlord unless there are caps, stops, or exclusions.

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Mitigation

Mitigation in environmental permitting generally means avoiding, minimizing, and compensating for impacts. For wetlands and streams, remaining unavoidable impacts may require credits, restoration, preservation, or other compensation.

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Customer charge

A customer charge is a fixed recurring charge intended to recover customer-specific service and administrative costs. It is usually small compared with energy and demand charges for large data centers, but it is part of full tariff modeling.

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