Six months after the release of the DOE’s liftoff report on virtual power plants, how does lead author Jen Downing view the industry?
Why it’s hard for virtual power plant providers to access electric utility customer usage data and how it slows VPP growth.
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.
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?
Elisa Wood of Energy Changemakers interviews Uplight’s Peter Asmus about the evolution of virtual power plants.
Hydrogen blending lowers carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas generators, but It also can increase nitrogen oxides. What can be done about this?
Virtual power plants are growing in popularity, but many states make participating hard.
In Energy Changemakers’ first video podcast, US Congressman Sean Casten describes a new bill he co-sponsored that addresses several problems facing decentralized energy
EV charging stations may influence how we spend time, gather, and maybe even where we live.
Regulators sometimes open up a piece of the utility monopoly’s business to competition from distributed energy providers.