Rooftop Solar & Virtual Power Plants Take Center Stage As Oil & Gas Wilt
The rooftop solar and home energy storage trends are pushing the case to replace gas peaker plants with zero emission “virtual” power plants.
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Revenge Of The Virtual Power Plants, Part Infinity
Virtual power plants were virtually unknown just a few years ago, and now the floodgates are open thanks in part to a Trump-era ruling.
AutoGrid Recruits Army Of Heat Pumps For Virtual Power Plants
Heat pumps, hot water heaters, and virtual power plants will do some serious generation-shifting on their own, with or without the Clean Power Plan (spoiler alert: without).
Virtual Power Plants Do More Than Aggregate: They Empower
A new solar-enabled virtual power plant in Richmond, California, will not leave low- and middle-income households out in the cold
“Red” Nebraska Is Ready For Its Wind Power Closeup
Nebraska is flexing its wind power muscles as the political divide over renewable energy succumbs to the power of the almighty dollar.
Texas Sends A Renewable Energy Love Letter To Massachusetts…And Sweden
A climate action consortium in Massachusetts deployed renewable energy credits to support a new 208-megawatt solar project in Texas.
Ford F-150 Lightning Is A Rolling Energy Storage Beast, & Sunrun Is Here For It
Sunrun and Ford are running a potentially game-changing first of its kind vehicle-to-home energy storage experiment this summer, leveraging the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck.
The Texas Solar Energy Revolution Is Going Global
Even as talk of a Texas-style Brexit bubbles up, the state’s solar energy industry has been forging new ties in the US and overseas.
Installing Home EV Chargers Just Got Much Easier (And Cheaper)
A simple, inexpensive meter retrofit could blow the home EV charging field wide open (photo courtesy of NREL).
Renewables Ride To The Rescue As Texas Bakes Under Withering Heat
Texas lays clean power doubts to rest as its wind and solar industries grow, and renewables rise to keep the lights on during the latest heat wave.
