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Powering Good Neighbors

Helping community members and their leaders, customers, partners and other stakeholders communicate consistently about how responsible data center growth can support both data center needs and community priorities.

How to build a better energy neighbor

As communities evaluate unprecedented data center growth, they are asking the right questions about sources, magnitude, and potential impacts of data center operations. These questions also include where noise may come from, and how much emissions are emitted by power choices. Balancing digital growth with energy reliability, environmental stewardship, and community well-being requires commitment across the entire data center ecosystem.

The Powering Good Neighbors Toolkit is intended to help community members and their leaders, customers, partners and other stakeholders communicate consistently about how responsible data center growth can support both data center needs and community priorities.

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Why the conversation is changing

The rapid growth of AI and digital infrastructure is increasing demand for reliable power while raising important questions about grid reliability, energy use, environmental impact, and community outcomes.

Key takeaways

  • Powering Good Neighbors is Rehlko's toolkit for supporting responsible data center growth.

  • Helping to support communities, reliable power and grid resilience are essential to supporting digital infrastructure.

  • Environmental performance and operational reliability can progress together depending on community needs, location and system design.

  • Transparency and verified data help build stakeholder trust depending on design and operating conditions.

  • Positive community outcomes can be an important part of long-term infrastructure planning.

  • A practical transition strategy can help organizations balance today's needs with future sustainability goals depending on system design and operating conditions.

THE TOOLKIT

How Rehlko powers good neighbors.

As communities evaluate unprecedented data center growth, they are asking the right questions about digital growth, energy reliability, environmental stewardship, and community well-being. These are precisely the challenges Rehlko can help address.

Powering Good Neighbors has been organizaed into three common areas of concerns when it comes to data center power:

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Rehlko generator installation supporting reliable power infrastructure for data center operations.

Energy infrastructure & economic impacts

Supporting energy resilience through flexible power solutions that help meet today's demands and prepare for tomorrow's needs depending on availability, environmental performance configuration, fuel source, and operating conditions of the system.

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Environmental and noise impacts

Helping reduce emissions, noise, and operational impacts while maintaining mission-critical reliability depending on operating conditions and configuration of the system.

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Transparency and innovation

Provide stakeholders with credible information, measurable outcomes, and greater visibility into Environmental Product Declarations.

Solutions that put the toolkit into action

Powering Good Neighbors brings together technologies, transition planning, environmental transparency, and real-world deployments that help data center operators support both business growth and community priorities.

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Structured energy transition

Structured Transition Model™

Meet speed-to-power needs today while creating a pathway toward energy storage, lower-carbon fuels, grid participation, and long-term community resilience.

Maintenance and lifecycle care

Conscious Care™

Advanced life-cycle care and maintenance program for KD Series™ generators allows customers to reduce costs and emissions depending on use and configuration of the system.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Hydrogen fuel cell systems

Fully optimized and integrated solution, suitable for prime energy, peak shaving, and emergency backup power applications, converting hydrogen to electricty with water vapor as the primary by-product at the point of use.

Alternative backup power fuels

Alternative fuels for backup power

All Rehlko diesel engines and power generators are HVO fuel compatible which allows users to further decrease the carbon footprint across a generator's lifecycle.

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Behind-the-meter power generation

Generate power onsite that can help reduce reliance on local electricity infrastructure during peak demand periods while supporting operational resilience.

Battery energy storage system

Battery energy storage system (BESS)

Helps data center customers manage highly variable utility rate structures, load spikes with high-demand charges, and grid instability by balancing energy supply and demand behind-the-meter or as part of a hybrid system.

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Acoustic enclosure solutions

Certain enclosure configurations can achieve sound levels as low as 74 dBA at 7 meters under specified measurement conditions and are designed to satisfy many commonly used community noise requirements based on the 74dBa standard on eFRAME enclosures.

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Power Impact Intelligence™

Access product-level environmental data, carbon modeling tools, and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) insights to support community, regulatory, and stakeholder conversations.

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Combined cooling, heat, and power

Combined cooling, heat, and power (CCHP) systems anchored in gas engines, produce electricity, heat and or cooling. In certain CCHP applications, overall system efficiency can approach 90% by capturing and utilizing thermal energy that would otherwise be wasted, increasing the amount of energy used from the same fuel.

Supporting economic resilience for our communities

Generating and managing more power on-site can reduce reliance on local electricity infrastructure and costs while supporting lower emission operations and improving community energy resilience when appropriately designed and configured.

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Progress starts with us

Creating a more sustainable future begins with the actions we take within our own operations.

19.6%

Reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions compared to our 2023 baseline.

81.2%

Operational waste diversion rate across global operations.

HVO fuel testing

Renewable fuel testing at our Brest, France facility helps validate practical pathways for customers seeking lower-impact operations.

See the 2026 Powering Impact Report for more information on methodology and assumptions.

In plain language: What Powering Good Neighbors™ means

As communities evaluate unprecedented data center growth, they are asking the right questions about digital growth, energy reliability, environmental stewardship, and community well-being. These are precisely the challenges Rehlko can help address.

In summary, Rehlko addressed common community concerns about data centers through three key pillars:

  • Creating long-term economic value

  • Strengthening energy resilience while reducing environmental impact

  • Building trust through transparency & innovation

Rehlko's objective is to support responsible data center development and help ensure that the infrastructure powering AI and digital frowth is deployed in ways that help customers strengthen grid reliability, protect communities, and work to support long-term economic and environmental sustainabililty.

Supporting statistics

These solutions can reduce reliance on local infrastructure during peak demand periods and may provide grid-support benefits where permitted.

2 GW+

Prime power and storage capacity supporting community grid networks.

75dBA

Our sound rating is close to that of an average running washing machine. If they are building a microgrid, ask to use our even0quieter natural gas engines, used by hospitals who have high noise and vibration sensitivity.*

71% lower emissions

Conscious Care can reduce testing-related greenhouse gas emissions by up to 71%.

*Measured against household washing machines sold in the European Union are required to disclose airborne acoustrical noise emissions during the spin cycle. Many residential models are rated between 72 and 76 dB(A), according to product data reported under Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019 2014 and the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL).

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Put the toolkit into practice

Explore practical guides, educational resources, and planning tools designed to help community leaders, stakeholders, and partners navigate conversations about responsible data center growth with confidence.

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Building a Resilient Local Grid

How modern data centers support communities.

A year in the Life of a Backup Generator

Demystifying data center backup power: emergency readiness, not continuous operation.

Community Integration Checklist

Key questions and considerations to help communities assess readiness and plan for long-term development.

Powering Good Neighbors Toolkit

One-pager supporting responsible data center growth.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

1. What is Powering Good Neighbors?
Powering Good Neighbors is Rehlko's toolkit for helping community members and their leaders, customers, partners and other stakeholders communicate consistently about how responsible data center growth can support both data center needs and community prioirities.
2. How does Powering Good Neighbors support responsible data center growth?
The toolkit has been organized into three common areas of concerns when it comes to data center prower: energy infrastructure & economic impacts, environmental & noise impacts, and transparency & innovation.
3. Can AI growth happen without overwhelming local power grids?
Growing AI and digital infrastructure demand requires thoughtful energy planning. Technologies such as behind-the-meter generation, battery energy storage, microgrids, and flexible power architectures can help reduce reliance on local electricity infrastructure during peak demand periods, depending on system configuration and market conditions.
4. How can data centers support grid reliability?
Data centers can support grid reliability through onsite power generation, battery energy storage systems (BESS), and microgrid technologies. These solutions can help facilities reduce demand on local infrastructure during peak periods and, where permitted, provide additional grid-support capabilities.
5. What is the Structured Transition Model?
The Structured Transition Model is Rehlko's roadmap for helping operators meet immediate speed-to-power requirements while creating a pathway toward battery storage, lower-carbon fuels, renewable integration, and future grid participation. The model is designed to help organizations evolve their energy strategies over time without replacing existing infrastructure.
6. How can operators reduce backup power emissions and noise?
Operators can reduce operational impacts through technologies and services such as HVO-compatible generators, Conscious Care, advanced emissions-control technologies, and acoustic enclosure solutions. These approaches can help support reliable backup power while reducing emissions, fuel consumption, and noise depending on size, configuration and market conditions of the system.
7. How does Rehlko support environmental transparency?
Rehlko helps customers access verified environmental information through tools such as Power Impact Intelligence, Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), product-level carbon data, and reporting resources. These tools help support informed discussions with communities, regulators, and stakeholders.
8. What are Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)?
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are independently verified documents that provide standardized information about the environmental impact of a product throughout its lifecycle. They help organizations evaluate environmental performance using transparent, documented, and comparable data.
9. How can data centers be good neighbors?
Data centers can support local communities by strengthening energy resilience, reducing environmental impacts, increasing transparency, and investing in long-term infrastructure strategies that balance growth with community priorities.
10. What does responsible data center growth mean?
Responsible data center growth means balancing digital infrastructure expansion with energy reliability, environmental stewardship, and community expectations through thoughtful planning and measurable outcomes.

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Environmental & performance notice

Unless otherwise expressly stated, performance, emissions, noise, grid-support, and sustainability outcomes depend on equipment configuration, fuel source, operating conditions, maintenance practices, site design, regulatory requirements, and customer operating decisions. References to environmental benefits and emissions reductions are based on specified assumptions and methodologies, and actual results may vary.