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.
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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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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Here’s Why It’s Still Hard for Your Solar Panels to Earn Revenue in US Wholesale Power Markets
FERC Order 2222 doesn’t remove all of the barriers to aggregated DERs, according to a new Guidehouse white paper.
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10 Intriguing Distributed Energy Projects to Watch in 2024
Ameresco, Arc Motor Company, ARENA, Community Electricity, CPower, Google, Intellihub, Maine, NYSERDA, OhmConnect, Pennsylvania Turnpike and Sunnova made this year’s list.
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An Energy Wonk Comes Face-to-Face with the Real World. It isn’t Pretty
Well known energy analyst and writer, Peter Asmus, faced red tape and confusion when he tried to install solar plus storage on his home. If it was hard for him, what’s it like for the rest of the world?
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Five Big Ideas Out of Dervos 2023
Dervos 2023 stimulated some of the most thought-provoking discussion about distributed energy I’ve heard at a conference. Here are a few (of many) big ideas floated at the event hosted by the DER Task Force last week in Brooklyn, NY.
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Virtual Power Plants: The Taylor Swift of Modern Energy
When I first wrote about virtual power plants in 2014, it was a mystery term applied to an energy efficiency project in my town. Now it’s the big start on the platform.