So what exactly do Energy Changemaker members talk about on our community platform?
Rather than explain, I invite you to listen to this thought-provoking 12-minute, impromptu conversation I recorded.
The discussion occurred after a developer of sustainable neighborhoods made a presentation to the community. The builder, Pearl Homes, hopes to turn one of its Florida neighborhoods into a virtual power plant but faces regulatory obstructions.
Community members delve into why virtual power plants typically monetize through demand response programs rather than injecting power directly into the grid—and why that’s unfortunate.
Then, the conversation takes an even more provocative turn.
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The speakers ponder what this means to shared energy within a community, the ultimate benefit of distributed energy resources, and why investor-owned utilities lack incentive to pursue decentralization.
“The value of distributed resources is really going to be avoiding building big infrastructure. And I think that’s a lot of where the battle lines are right now,” says Lorenzo Kristov, who speaks on the recording along with John A. “Skip” Laitner and William Prindle.
I invite you to listen to get a sense of what Energy Changemaker is about.
Here’s the recording: Inside Energy Changemakers. If you’d like to read the transcript simultaneously, I’ve posted it for public view here: Energy Changemakers Transcript.