For several years, "virtual power plant" has been just one more poorly defined and poorly understood concept at the bleeding edge of the energy industry. But while most of us have considered VPPs only in vague musings about the distant future,
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It is easy to underestimate the potential impact of virtual power plants. Solar and energy storage scales very easily down, and the vast majority of solar/storage facilities are tiny and distributed. The vast majority of these tiny, distributed facilities are essentially unmanaged and therefore contribute only a small portion of their potential value to the grid.
And that's without even addressing the batteries in electric vehicles.
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