Virtual Power Plants (VPP)

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The great Electric Grid Transformation (EGT) is happening, the transformation from Utility Centric to Distributed and Virtual Power Plants are a key driver for the simple reason that it makes a lot of economic sense, sell your excess solar energy and amortize your investment in your home’s energy security.

X-post at Destiny Solutions Corporation:

Swell raises $120M for virtual power plants to link solar and batteries

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/grid-edge/swell-raises-120m-for-virtual-power-plants-to-link-solar-and-batteries Almost every company in the rooftop-solar and battery space has at least a few virtual power plant projects underway. VPPs control tens, hundreds or thousands of individual home solar and battery systems to turn their collective energy flexibility into megawatt-scale resources for utilities and the grid today — and potentially gigawatt-scale resources in the years to come. VPP…

Swell Energy is private

Symbol Lookup from Yahoo Finance

When will VPPs become investable?

The Captain

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https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gm-ford-google-partner-promote-virtual-power-plants-2023-01-10/?fbclid=IwAR0DoIxQSEXAnplCyJMoiwhDDAmFszgN_d5w9RXmtbNR8p6zKlLb4oS6cf4

Reuters reports Ford, GM, and Google are cooperating on the technology. Software would allow short term peak power demand to be supplied by reversing charging batteries as in EVs.