Virtual power plants helped save the grid during

It costs far less — and takes less time — to aggregate existing customer-sited resources than it does to build new dispatchable

2024 May 01

VIRTUAL POWER PLANTS PROJECTS

Project Hestia will make distributed energy resources — including residential rooftop solar, battery storage, and virtual power plant-ready, consumer-facing software — available to more

2025 Mar 15

Smart Grids and Virtual Power Plants: Enabling the Future of

A virtual power plant unites power-generating, controllable devices that are connected, decentralized and flexible- among other things. This includes battery storage, wind

2024 Apr 15

How Virtual Power Plants Are Making the Grid More Affordable,

Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) are a network of small energy generation sites—think hundreds of homes with rooftop solar—that are combined with storage technologies like home

2024 Jun 07

VPP adoption is growing in the US, but not nearly fast enough

A new report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Virtual Power Plants 2025 Update, provides a fresh look at the DOE''s roadmap for the

2025 Oct 14

How virtual power plants are shaping tomorrow''s energy system

Here''s what you need to know about VPPs—and why they could be the key to helping us bring more clean power and energy storage online. What are virtual power plants

2023 Dec 11

Virtual Power Plant with Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Storage

As the climate crisis worsens, power grids are gradually transforming into a more sustainable state through renewable energy sources (RESs), energy storage systems (ESSs),

2023 Jul 11

Sector Spotlight: Virtual Power Plants | Department of Energy

In September 2023, LPO announced the closing of a $3 billion partial loan guarantee to Sunnova Energy Corporation''s Project Hestia to make distributed energy

2024 Nov 18

Review on Virtual Power Plants/Virtual Aggregators: Concepts

A Virtual Power Plant (VPP), Virtual Aggregator (VA), or simply Aggregator, represents the association of several Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) orchestrated to

2024 May 30

Why engineers are turning to virtual power plants

Virtual power plants turn distributed energy assets like EVs and solar into grid resources without new infrastructure.

2026 Feb 05

Sector Spotlight: Virtual Power Plants | Department

In September 2023, LPO announced the closing of a $3 billion partial loan guarantee to Sunnova Energy Corporation''s Project Hestia to

2024 Mar 22

VIRTUAL POWER PLANTS PROJECTS | Department of Energy

Project Hestia will make distributed energy resources — including residential rooftop solar, battery storage, and virtual power plant-ready, consumer-facing software — available to more

2026 Jan 01

Research on day-ahead optimal dispatching of virtual power plants

Secondly, wind and photovoltaic power, batteries and a pumped storage plant were aggregated into a virtual power plant, and the day-ahead optimization scheduling model

2024 Nov 17

Sunrun creates New York''s largest residential

Sunrun operates more than a dozen virtual power plants, including the nation''s largest single-owner VPP, the aforementioned

2023 Oct 07

Jigar Shah chairs new US virtual power plant

Image: Businesswire. The non-profit Energy Policy Design Institute (EPDI) has launched the Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Convergence

2023 Oct 03

Virtual Power Plants: How The Power Inside Our Homes Can

Smart thermostats, EV chargers, rooftop solar panels, and home batteries are becoming critical to the grid. Known as distributed energy resources (DERs), these small

2024 Nov 28