Weaving Together the Electric and Transportation Industries — and Making it Look Easy
WeaveGrid explains what it takes to
bring together two very different industries with the rise of EV charging.
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What Energy Changemakers Say Behind Closed Doors
So what exactly do Energy Changemakers members talk about in the private community? Here’s a chance to eavesdrop for 12-minutes.
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Transcript: Energy Changemakers Behind Closed Doors
Transcript of a fascinating exchange inside the Energy Changemakers community between John A. “Skip” Laitner, William Prindle, and Lorenzo Kristov.
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If We Could Just Fix This One Thing
Energy Changemakers community members describe what one change could hasten the energy transition
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California Bill Calls for RPS-Like Targets for Virtual Power Plants
Over half of US states use renewable portfolio standards to boost green energy. Now, a California state senator is proposing applying the same concept to virtual power plants (VPPs).
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Challenges Virtual Power Plants Face. Are they Fixable? Insights from DOE’s Jen Downing
Six months after the release of the DOE’s liftoff report on virtual power plants, how does lead author Jen Downing view the industry?
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Death by a Million PDFs: Confusing and Inaccessible Data Delays Virtual Power Plants
Why it’s hard for virtual power plant providers to access electric utility customer usage data and how it slows VPP growth.
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What is the Decentralized Grid? Let’s Agree on a Definition
The decentralized grid is an electric network of distributed energy resources that interact with each other or with the central grid to improve efficiency, lower costs, reduce emissions and provide greater local control of energy assets.
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Think Community Energy Can’t Work? Tell that to Kit Carson Electric
How did this small New Mexico co-op, far from the energy innovation meccas of California and New York, become a model for community energy? And can others follow its lead?
Why Virtual Power Plants are ‘In’ and Where They’re Taking Us Next
Elisa Wood of Energy Changemakers interviews Uplight’s Peter Asmus about the evolution of virtual power plants.