DOE just released our new Innovative Grid Deployment Liftoff report today – finding we can increase our grid’s capacity to support well above the 2.5% annual growth in the next few years with commercially available advanced grid solutions like #advancedconductors #GETs #VPPs …

Virtual power plants are reshaping energy management! By harmonizing distributed energy resources, VPPs enhance grid reliability and boost renewable integration. It's a game-changer for sustainable energy futures. #EnergyInnovation #SustainableEnergy bit.ly/3UaUax4

GridBeyond raises $86 million to help advance VPP technology and help consumers match renewables with demand ow.ly/jIFt50RgOg9

#California 's #VPPs could save $550M yearly, offer 7.5GW capacity—15% peak demand—by 2035, reducing new plant needs.

GridBeyond raises $86 million to help advance VPP technology and help consumers match renewables with demand ow.ly/bxA850RgO8j

Important thread by Jigar Shah. He notes that 2.6 TW of generation is in interconnection queue and says about 14% or 364 GW are solid projects. That's 50% of nationwide peak capacity of about 735 GW. Add advanced conductors, DR & VPPs. Huge cheap, clean resources are available.

With new appliances coming with an app on your phone, we can shift peak load using demand flexibility for 20% of the grid by 2030 at a cost that is 90% less than business as usual to help get more out of the grid and generation we have already paid for energy-storage.news/vpps-could-cov…

VPPs, other advanced technologies could each expand existing US grid capacity 20-100 GW: DOE utilitydive.com/news/advanced-… via Utility Dive #energytwitter #solar

Why does Solar and Storage Industry and Tesla have an obsession with device level metering? Settlement to the device means no self consumption, and complex sub-metering. Learn from the LSEs and CSPs and just settle on AMI data. VPPs should only require telemetry

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Grid scale batteries (and aggregated residential batteries acting together as VPPs) are the new peaker plants 💪

✅ Stabilizing the grid
✅ Enabling more renewable generation
✅ Zero emissions

California’s virtual power plant potential is high, new report says. California's market potential for virtual power plants (VPPs) could hit 7.5 GW by 2035, exceeding 15% of peak demand and 5 times the existing capability, according to a new report... renewableenergyworld.com/solar/californ…

These solutions can help support demand this decade with #GETs and #VPPs . Then #geothermal #LDES #offshorewind #nuclear can come online in the 2030s.

Yep, VPPs, that's the ticket. Cleaner and greener? Nope, how about more expensive and less reliable...

VPPs, other advanced technologies could each expand existing US grid capacity 20-100 GW: DOE utilitydive.com/news/advanced-… via Utility Dive

Most utilities' incentives will prevent them from simplifying VPP enrollment -- especially with third party VPPs. Even California's Rule 24 is messy when you look under the hood. The IOUs refuse to simplify it, because: Why cede ground to a 'competitor'?

Jigar Shah California is extremely short capacity and neither DR nor VPPS are fixing it for them

Rao Konidena New York ISO @FERC But FERC approved NYISO's 10kW minimum DER size. Essentially freezes out residential DER aggregations and VPPs.

Via ESN: ' VPPs could cover 15% of peak California demand by 2035 using home batteries, demand response: Virtual power plants (VPPs) in California using technologies including home batteries and demand response… dlvr.it/T5NqGZ ' #Energy Storage #Energy #BatteryStorage

Utilities and VPP providers want smarter operations, better planning and strong interoperability standards to scale VPPs.

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Sentinel Drew Smithee, PE m Discourse shall provide their expertise to utilities and regulators and change their mind. Who am I to argue. I am just a market participant trying to make a living with no PhD in VPPs or system planning or gas.