virtual power plant

PV Talk: Vote Solar’s Sachu Constantine discusses the growing role of state and local governments in driving forward clean energy policy in the United States.

The Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, has signed a clean energy bill into law that will boost solar PV and energy storage investments in the state, among others.

The capacity of virtual power plants in operation in North America has reached 37.5GW, a 13.7% year-on-year growth, according to Wood Mackenzie.

The Q2 2025 edition (Volume 42) of our downstream solar PV journal, PV Tech Power, is now available to download.

PV Talk: Geoff Ferrell of sonnen tells JP Casey how virtual power plants offer the prospect of lower-cost and lower-carbon power.

With talks of repowering nuclear power plants in the US for data centres, VPPs can be an immediate alternative to cover data centres needs.

PV Talk: Sunrun’s Chris Rauscher tells Jonathan Touriño Jacobo why virtual power plants could be used to power energy-hungry data centres and, in the process, open up new residential solar + storage markets.

The Australian Energy Market Commissioner (AEMC) is proposing to enable virtual power plants (VPPs) to directly compete with large-scale generators in the energy market, which could aid solar PV’s role in decarbonising Australia.

The Energy Storage for Resilient Homes Act would allow residents of the two states to use funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to purchase residential BESS.

How VPPs could help reduce solar PV curtailment in California, while also helping financially to install a solar array and storage.