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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.

Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) have emerged as a novel energy management solution, offering an effective means to address energy supply issues.

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) is set to integrate new rules surrounding consumer energy resources (CER) to exercise greater control over their use, aiding solar PV’s role in the electricity mix.

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.

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.

Sunnova has expanded its virtual power plants (VPPs) to better manage the grid in six US states, plus the territory of Puerto Rico.

PV Tech Premium looks at why Puerto Rico's particularity in the residential market could be a success story in the energy transition.

As virtual power plants will be important in the future to help the grid, challenges around data sharing still persist.