Credit to Author: Sally Jacquemin| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:55:56 +0000
Most people, when they imagine a power plant, picture equipment like smokestacks that stretch hundreds of feet into the sky, massive, spinning turbines and the hum of electric transmission lines […]
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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:14:27 +0000
Base Power supplies residential storage batteries at ridiculously low cost. Is its virtual power plant model sustainable?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 14:44:50 +0000
California seems to be on a mission to destroy the market for virtual power plants and please the investors of major utility companies.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 04:57:42 +0000
Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. With the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Press Release| Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 13:18:03 +0000
Sunrun creates the country’s largest virtual power plant to participate in statewide program designed to strengthen California’s stressed electrical grid and reduce blackouts by providing load generation during extreme events
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:06:02 +0000
A Vermont utility has filed a plan with state regulators that would enable the power company to offer more customers battery energy storage to keep the lights on during outages. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:04:52 +0000
Energy industry analysts have said energy storage will be needed to support the integration of renewable energy into the U.S. power grid, and to provide grid flexibility and reliability. Energy […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:03:17 +0000
Extreme weather events, cybersecurity threats and volatility in energy markets at all levels puts intense strain on America’s power grid. Virtual power plants (VPP) are an important tool to secure the resiliency of this critical system. What is a VPP, you ask? As RMI puts it, VPPs are comprised of hundreds or thousands of households […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:10:25 +0000
PG&E will test two types of virtual power plant technology this summer to determine which is best for supporting the utility grid.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 01:07:22 +0000
TenneT and sonnen have announced that they’ve powered the German grid with electric cars. TenneT is a top electricity network operator in Europe, and sonnen produces and manages stationary battery storage systems. Working together, TenneT tapped into the electricity stored in electric car batteries that are part of the sonnenCommunity. It did so when there […]