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.
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Why We Need True AI-Driven Virtual Power Plants
Guest contributor Anna Demeo describes how to recognize true AI-driven software and its use in virtual power plants.
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Here Comes Hydrogen. Are Natural Gas Generators Ready?
Hydrogen blending lowers carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas generators, but It also can increase nitrogen oxides. What can be done about this?
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How to Make Virtual Power Plants Available to More of Us
Virtual power plants are growing in popularity, but many states make participating hard.
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How to Create a Consumer-First Energy Policy: An Interview with Congressman Sean Casten
In Energy Changemakers’ first video podcast, US Congressman Sean Casten describes a new bill he co-sponsored that addresses several problems facing decentralized energy
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Where Will We Get Our Fried Chicken When the Gas Stations Are Gone?
EV charging stations may influence how we spend time, gather, and maybe even where we live.
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How Regulation Creates Markets for Distributed Energy — And Why it Must
Regulators sometimes open up a piece of the utility monopoly’s business to competition from distributed energy providers.