virtual power plant

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May 23, 2024
How VPPs could help reduce solar PV curtailment in California, while also helping financially to install a solar array and storage.
April 11, 2024
Virtual power plants (VPPs) in California, US, could provide over 7.5GW of capacity, around 15% of peak demand by 2035, according to a report from consultancy The Brattle Group for non-profit GridLab.
April 4, 2024
Sunnova has expanded its virtual power plants (VPPs) to better manage the grid in six US states, plus the territory of Puerto Rico.
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October 6, 2023
As virtual power plants will be important in the future to help the grid, challenges around data sharing still persist.
September 29, 2023
The US Department of Energy has agreed to supply up to US$3.3 billion in loan funding to US residential solar developer Sunnova.
February 3, 2023
A map of the VPPs in which Sunrun’s batteries are participating through Lunar’s platform. Image: Sunrun / Lunar Energy.
January 12, 2023
Google’s smart home division has joined Ford, Sunpower, Sunrun in partnership centred around scaling market for virtual power plants (VPP).
October 13, 2022
US solar installer Sunrun has completed its first successful season running a residential VPP in a New England's wholesale capacity market
May 4, 2022
A virtual power plant (VPP) pilot programme in Western Australia that aims to adapt grid management to support greater uptake of rooftop solar has aggregated its first package of residentially generated energy.
December 10, 2021
Swiss fund manager SUSI Partners has acquired a 50% interest in Starling Energy Group, an Australian installer of integrated solar PV and energy storage systems for the residential sector.

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