Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 16:46:12 +0000
Virtual power plants were virtually unknown just a few years ago, and now the floodgates are open thanks in part to a Trump-era ruling.
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:00:27 +0000
Virtual power plants may be our most important and most overlooked domestic energy resource. Last summer, California’s record-breaking, grid-straining heat wave forced the state government to send text messages asking residents for emergency, voluntary energy conservation. And it worked. Energy demand dropped; blackouts were avoided. California’s successful response illustrates how devices in our homes and […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 21:30:52 +0000
Octopus Energy and Enphase have introduced a virtual power plant program in Texas that allows customers to leverage home solar power.
Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:38:43 +0000
A group of heavy hitters, including Ford, General Motors, Google Nest, OhmConnect, Olivine, SPAN, SunPower, Sunrun, SwitchDin, and Virtual Peaker, has formed a coalition that aims to scale up the market for virtual power plants in a bid to increase the resiliency of the grid and help decarbonize the electric sector. Virtual power plants, or […]
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:44:08 +0000
More companies are providing software and automation technology to the power generation sector, particularly as newer forms of electricity production increase their market share. Emerson is among those groups, with its technology providing a single, integrated, secure platform that is independent of plant type or the equipment originally installed at a generation facility. James Fraser, […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:44:08 +0000
More companies are providing software and automation technology to the power generation sector, particularly as newer forms of electricity production increase their market share. Emerson is among those groups, with its technology providing a single, integrated, secure platform that is independent of plant type or the equipment originally installed at a generation facility. James Fraser, […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 01:10:47 +0000
Volvo is planning to enable bi-directional charging on all its future electric cars, starting with the EX90 that debuts in November.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:02:39 +0000
Thanks to some bold moves by sonnen, the idea of using residential storage batteries to create a virtual power plant is taking hold in Utah.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 19:54:18 +0000
The heatwave that’s been hitting California and other states in the West has been a beast of a problem. It’s crippling grids, which even has utilities and governments asking people to not charge their electric cars, turn down their AC, and wear dirty clothes rather than do the laundry*. What’s really needed, though, is more […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 02:37:21 +0000
Let’s start with the ABCs: what are inertia services on an electricity grid? Even before that, what is inertia in a grid setting? Most of us should remember “inertia” from our younger years in primary school. Inertia is an object’s natural inclination to just keep moving (if it weren’t for friction) or just keep sitting […]