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Home » Authors » Peter V.K. Funk Jr.
Peter V.K. Funk Jr.

Peter V.K. Funk Jr.

Peter Funk is a partner at Funk & Zeifer where he practices in the area of energy law with a focus on energy generation and energy management\conservation projects. Funk’s column Legal Perspectives discusses legal issues pertaining to energy generation and conservation.

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Negotiating Power Supply Agreements For Edge Data Centers
The Optimal Edge

Negotiating Power Supply Agreements For Edge Data Centers

There are many contractual considerations besides price that an EDC should consider in the course of negotiating power supply agreements.
Peter funk
Peter V.K. Funk Jr.
July 1, 2019
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Clients are typically, and understandably, focused upon price when evaluating proposals for the purchase of electric power from a supplier other than the local electric utility. However, price is only one of several considerations that an edge data center (EDC) purchaser should consider.


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Edge users and providers can benefit from this knowledge
The Optimal Edge

Lessons From The Distributed Energy Generation Industry For Edge Computing

Edge users and providers can benefit from this knowledge.
Peter funk
Peter V.K. Funk Jr.
Ellen Zeifer
June 4, 2018
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Edge users and providers can benefit from this knowledge.


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Colocation Power Supply And Billing Disputes Do your due diligence before signing a contract

Colocation Power Supply And Billing Disputes

Do your due diligence before signing a contract.
Peter funk
Peter V.K. Funk Jr.
October 2, 2017
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The term “colocation” historically has more than one meaning. In current usage, colocation (or colo) commonly refers to a data center facility which rents space for servers and other computing hardware.


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Are Islanded Microgrids Suitable For Mission Critical Facilities?

There are many factors to consider.
Peter funk
Peter V.K. Funk Jr.
February 2, 2016
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Are microgrids that are not interconnected to utility grids (islanded) appropriate to power data centers? Islanded microgrids may be very beneficial to single owner data centers or other mission critical facilities. 


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New York Incentives For Data Center Energy Efficiency Projects

Find the incentive that is right for you.
Peter funk
Peter V.K. Funk Jr.
August 12, 2015

Data center operators and owners in New York planning energy efficiency and other energy-related projects should check to see if they qualify for demand-based financial incentives.


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Even Playing Field? Solving Utility Bill Disputes In Mission Critical Facilities

Peter funk
Peter V.K. Funk Jr.
Ellen Zeifer
June 3, 2015
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Prior issues of Mission Critical, including the January/February 2014 issue, make it clear that energy efficiency and conservation and other energy topics in data centers involving cooling are hot.


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Legal Perspectives

The Great Leap Backwards

From technical to legal
Peter funk
Peter V.K. Funk Jr.
August 7, 2014
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Whether you like it or not, the path to energy conservation and sustainably is paved in contracts, compliance, and other legal considerations.


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Legal Perspectives

Allocation Of Risk In Power Purchase Agreements For On-Site Power

It is important that all parties involved understand their respective risks.
Peter funk
Peter V.K. Funk Jr.
December 3, 2013
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This column discusses certain, but not all, of the important considerations for parties to consider when negotiating and entering into PPAs.


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Legal Perspectives

Energy Performance Contracts And Data Centers

Is it time?
Peter funk
Peter V.K. Funk Jr.
August 13, 2013
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Energy performance contracts (EPCs), also called energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs), have long been employed by energy services com-panies (ESCOs) to perform projects that involve the installation of energy efficiency and conservation measures


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Legal Perspectives

Free Lunch? Maybe …

Free online services are anything but.
Peter funk
Peter V.K. Funk Jr.
Ellen Zeifer
April 9, 2013
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An old economic adage says “there is no such thing as a free lunch.” This saying was responsive to a common practice among nineteenth century pre-prohibition bars that provided a spread of food to draw lunchtime drinkers.


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