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Two VPP Models Help Utilities and their Customers Reap the Benefits of DERs and Microgrids

Nov. 4, 2024
As utilities begin to embrace the benefits of deploying distributed energy resources, different models are emerging for how utilities and their customers can participate. Programs...

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Revolutionizing Defense: The Crucial Role of Microgrids and Schneider Electric in Department of Defense Energy Resiliency

Sept. 13, 2024
Last month, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) said that U.S. power grids are becoming more susceptible to cyberattacks every day, with vulnerable attack...
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EPRI Gains $2M Funding for Commercial Building VPP Demonstration Project

Oct. 31, 2024
EPRI has been awarded a three-year $2 million grant from the California Energy Commission to demonstrate scalable, community-based virtual power plants for commercial buildings...
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Generac Securing DOE Funding to Support $100M Battery Microgrid VPPs for Water Utilities

Oct. 27, 2024
Under the planned water infrastructure power project, microgrids using battery energy storage and managed by distributed energy resources management systems (DERS) would form ...
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Momentum for Moloka’i Micro Power: Rural Hawaiian Island Seeks 15 Nanogrids

Oct. 18, 2024
The Ho’Ahu Energy Cooperative in Hawaii has issued a request for proposal (RFP) for the design and construction of 15 off-grid solar and battery storage nanogrids on the island...
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Groups Seek to Include Resilience and Other Benefits in California Energy Planning, Giving DERs – Including Microgrids – a Boost

Oct. 16, 2024
Energy resilience, health and economic development are among the non-energy benefits that should be included in California’s resource planning efforts, say groups participating...
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RMI’s New Report: VPPs Could Prevent up to 28 Million Tons of Carbon Emissions by 2035

Sept. 26, 2024
A new report from RMI and Virtual Power Plant Partnership (VP3), concludes that VPPs can reduce costs and carbon emissions while also maintaining reliable grid operations.
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New VPP Business Model Seeks to Transform the Utah Energy Ecosystem

Sept. 5, 2024
Rocky Mountain Power, along with battery manufacturer sonnen and solar installer ES Solar, aim to transform nearly 32,000 intermittent solar resources into dispatchable assets...
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Water Infrastructure Utility Connects with Paired Power for Solar-Storage EV Charging Canopy

Aug. 22, 2024
The PairTree technology is a U.S.-made solar-storage canopy which is connected both to grid power and on-site battery storage. The 4.6-kW solar array and 42.4-kWh battery also...