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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?

Elisa Wood
March 7, 2024
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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.

Elisa Wood
March 3, 2024
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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.

Elisa Wood
February 22, 2024
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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?

Elisa Wood
February 16, 2024
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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.

Elisa Wood
February 12, 2024
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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.

Anna Demeo
February 9, 2024
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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?  

Elisa Wood
February 7, 2024
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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.

Elisa Wood
February 6, 2024
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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

Elisa Wood
February 1, 2024
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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.

Elisa Wood
January 25, 2024
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