May 7th, 2025
Via Clean Technica, a look at an innovative distributed VPP power plant: As California prepares for yet another summer marked by extreme heat, wildfire risks, and rising electricity demand, Sunrun is significantly scaling up its innovative CalReady distributed power plant. The project now links together 75,000 home solar batteries — four times larger than last year’s […]
Read more »Texas Looks To Bolster Grid With “Virtual Power Plants” Fueled By People’s Homes
February 18th, 2025
Via Texas Tribune, a look at how – as the state’s energy demand soars – a pilot program looks to bolster grid with “virtual power plants” fueled by people’s homes On sunny days in the Hill Country, Tom Cook taps open an app on his phone and watches the power generated from the solar panels […]
Read more »November 13th, 2024
Via Volts, an interesting interview examining how residential solar is becoming residential solar + storage + VPP: Hello everyone, this is Volts for November 13, 2024. “Residential solar is becoming residential solar + storage + VPP.” I’m your host, David Roberts. Last month, I was in Brooklyn for the third annual DERvos conference celebrating distributed […]
Read more »Why One Developer Won’t Quit Fighting To Connect America’s Grids
September 25th, 2024
Via MIT Technology Review, an article on efforts to connect the U.S.’s grids: Michael Skelly hasn’t learned to take no for an answer. For much of the last 15 years, the Houston-based energy entrepreneur has worked to develop long-haul transmission lines to carry wind power across the Great Plains, Midwest, and Southwest, delivering clean electricity […]
Read more »September 6th, 2024
Via High Country News, a look at how engineering for flood resilience can address storms heightened by climate change. The living roof of the H2 Hotel in Healdsburg, California, both cools the building and mitigates rainwater runoff.John D. Ivanko/Alamy Stock Photo In early February, meteorologists warned Southern Californians that a supercharged storm was headed their way, […]
Read more »Grid-Scale Batteries: Clean Energy’s Next Trillion-Dollar Business
September 3rd, 2024
Via The Economist, a report on grid-scale batteries: Decarbonising the world’s electricity supply will take more than solar panels and wind turbines, which rely on sunshine and a steady breeze to generate power. Grid-scale storage offers a solution to this intermittency problem, but there is too little of it about. The International Energy Agency (IEA), an […]
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