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BC Hydro is leading an innovative new Peak Saver project under its Power Smart portfolio to transform homes in two B.C. communities into virtual power plants, offering uninterrupted power to customers while strengthening the flexibility of the electricity grid. The concept of a virtual ...
This is the second year that Sunrun has operated CalReady as the nation’s largest virtual power plant.In 2024, Sunrun’s CalReady power plant enrolled over 16,000 households and delivered an average of 48 megawatts of stored solar energy to the grid during summer heat waves, reaching an instantaneous peak of 54 megawatts. ...
Platte River Power Authority, the wholesale public power provider owned by Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont and Loveland, is working with Weld Energy Storage, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, to develop the electric utility’s first large-scale battery energy storage project. ...
This is crucial in the face of growing malicious attacks on connected energy systems worldwide and the growing demand for seamless, real-time operations and data sharing across companies.TEIA 1.0 enables Internet-connected energy devices—from batteries, EV chargers, and solar inverters to transformers, wind turbines, and power distribution systems—to securely identify themselves ...
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) this week announced the launch of Seasonal Aggregation of Versatile Energy (SAVE), an Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) demonstration and a first-of-its-kind virtual power plant that harnesses residential distributed energy resources to reduce local grid constraints. Working with multiple ...
Sunwealth has partnered with SYSO Technologies of Boston, Massachusetts, to provide its distributed energy management software platform, which will allow the project to function as a virtual power plant (VPP).Systems would be deployed across commercial buildings, multi-family properties, community solar, and other sites across up to 27 states, ...
Sunrun, a leading provider of clean energy as a subscription service, announced this week that its growing portfolio of virtual power plants (VPPs) successfully supported power grids across the country in 2024 with a combined instantaneous peak of nearly 80 megawatts—a capacity greater than many traditional fossil-fuel ...
Leap, a leading platform for launching and scaling virtual power plants (VPPs), has announced its entry into PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM), the largest wholesale electricity market in the United States. ...
NRG Energy Inc. this week announced it is partnering with Renew Home, a leading virtual power plant (VPP) company to boost its residential VPP capabilities. ...
The California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Demand Side Grid Support (DSGS) program has successfully enrolled 515 megawatts of capacity, with over 265,000 participants contributing to the state's efforts to maintain a clean, reliable energy grid during extreme climate-driven events.Launched in August 2022, the DSGS program is part of California’s Strategic Reliability Reserve of backup energy ...
Launched in 2021 under the leadership of the EDF Group, the EVVE (Environmental Valorization of Virtual Energy storage) project aims to deploy 800 vehicle-to-grid charging stations in Europe. ...
Diesel-powered microgrids remain the most common mode of supplying electricity to isolated areas. Off-grid communities are well-positioned to demonstrate microgrid innovation as a path to emancipating their energy economy from a dependence on imported fuels, harnessing power from inexhaustible supplies of renewable energy, and mitigating power ...
The annual clean energy output of the project is approximately 8,000 megawatt-hours. The solar plant at the Pennsville Landfill will contribute to mitigating the local and regional environmental and economic effects of the past 60 years of operations of the closed Deepwater Generating Station. ...
Sage Geosystems, Inc. and California Resources Corporation (CRC) this week announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish a collaborative framework for pursuing commercial projects and joint funding opportunities related to subsurface energy storage and geothermal power generation in California. This strategic partnership between Sage and CRC will ...
With a spectacular decline in costs to around four US cents per kilowatt hour in just one year, solar PV’s global costs in 2023 were 56% lower than fossil fuel and nuclear options. Overall, the renewable power deployed globally since 2000 has saved up to USD 409 billion in fuel costs in the power sector. ...
Highlights from the 2024 report include: Partners leading the way: More than 25 organizations reached their Better Buildings, Better Plants, or Better Climate Challenge goals in the past year while sharing their successful pathways for others to follow. ...
Phase 2 is the world's largest carbon negative ultra-green hydrogen plant. The Toronto-based company will utilize waste biomass to produce sustainable biofuel used in transportation, heating and electricity generation. ...
The nation’s first commercial hydropower plant was the Redlands Power Plant, built in California in 1893. Over the past 100-plus years, hydropower has become an integral part of the nation’s renewable energy mix, now accounting for 28.7% of the total U.S. renewable electricity generation. Today, most power-generation ...
sonnen, a leader in smart energy storage and virtual power plant (VPP) technology and ES Solar, a contractor renowned for their leadership in establishing a grid harmonized VPP business model for solar and energy storage, this week announced initial results following the launch of their “Go Back” program, an innovative new VPP business model ...
This technology, validated in the field in early 2022, marks a significant advancement for the clean energy sector, showcasing the ability to harness geothermal energy virtually anywhere and promising a new era of reliable, sustainable baseload power and enhanced grid stability. ...