Recently CleanTechnica’s CEO, Zachary Shahan, hosted a webinar with GridBeyond and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to discuss unlocking the value of virtual power plants. It was our first webinar in a few months and it was great to be back! We had lots of folks join us live, though … [continued]
Polestar says it won’t cut prices to boost sales. It is also planning to take part in a major V2G experiment and add Lidar to the Polestar 4.
The DOE is backing a plan by Sunnova to bring virtual power plants to as many as 115,000 American homes, including those in Puerto Rico.
In what is the now the first largest commercial deployment of a Virtual Power Plant in the world, energy expert Enel X and 1,300 Gogoro battery-swapping GoStations will be helping the energy-hungry Taiwan power grid by supplying power during times when the demand is high and an imbalance is detected. … [continued]
The future of the power grid is a topic we’ve covered numerous times at CleanTechnica. While it’s an important topic, it’s definitely not the “Checkmate, libs!” talking point the anti-EV FUDsters think it is. But, just because the problem can be solved doesn’t mean there isn’t some work involved in … [continued]
One of the big things anti-EV FUDsters like to say is that the electrical grid can’t handle EVs. They know that ICE vehicles use a lot of energy to move, and that providing that much electricity must be a sure recipe for disaster. They’d have us believe that the grid … [continued]
Octopus Energy and Enphase have introduced a virtual power plant program in Texas that allows customers to leverage home solar power.
A group of heavy hitters, including Ford, General Motors, Google Nest, OhmConnect, Olivine, SPAN, SunPower, Sunrun, SwitchDin, and Virtual Peaker, has formed a coalition that aims to scale up the market for virtual power plants in a bid to increase the resiliency of the grid and help decarbonize the electric … [continued]
Thanks to some bold moves by sonnen, the idea of using residential storage batteries to create a virtual power plant is taking hold in Utah.
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).
