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Virtual power plants are proving their value well beyond covering demand surges. Utilities are using them to defer distribution grid investments, store renewable energy and return it to the grid when supply is tight, maintain power quality, and lower costs for consumers.
STEPHEN LACEY | This was supposed to be the year when clean energy rode the AI wave onto Wall Street. Instead, the pipeline for energy IPOs is dwindling. What happened?
BESS project finance runs on contracts: availability guarantees, capacity tests, and warranty degradation curves that define what a battery should deliver. In this report from ACCURE, those specifications are tested against operational data from 50+ operating battery projects…
MAEVE ALLSUP | Grid startup Splight’s dynamic congestion management software is now being used to increase the capacity of two transmission corridors in Chile, targeting chronic renewables curtailment across the country’s windy south.
MAEVE ALLSUP | The pitch for residential virtual power plants in the data center era is straightforward: Home batteries, smart thermostats, heat pumps, and EV chargers can be deployed in a matter of months, and if you deploy thousands of them, they offer firm capacity.
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