How to Use Utility Data to Prepare for Emerging VPP Opportunities

To improve system reliability and efficiency, there has been increasing focus on virtual power plants (VPPs) as an alternative to capital deployment in new centralized power facility builds. A VPP is a cloud-based distributed power plant that aggregates a variety of energy resources to sell excess power production and/or manage internal load reduction. Such opportunities enable the aggregated distributed energy resource (DER) technologies to be operated directly for customer priorities, which may result in deeper decarbonization and increasing demand flexibility, resulting in cleaner and more affordable power.