The Dispatch: A New Energy Newsletter | May '23
Panel Discussion:
As the use of electric vehicles (EVs) grows, managing the increased demand for electricity presents new challenges and opportunities for power grid management. Listen in as Clean Power Alliance's Joanne O'Neill, AutoGrid's Mimi Gupta, and Peter Asmus discuss integrating EVs into VPPs for a more resilient, cost-effective, and sustainable grid.
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Other Stories
EVs are one of our most powerful tools in accelerating grid transformation and achieving a sustainable future. But supportive regulation, incentives, and access for all are essential to deliver on EVs’ promise. In a new PV Magazine article, AutoGrid’s Varun Deshpande weighs our progress to date and looks to earlier setbacks and successes of solar adoption for inspiration.
The future of virtual power plants is bright, but the lack of standardization is a major hurdle. Establishing open protocols and standards is critical to creating a technology-agnostic DER ecosystem where participants can freely leverage multiple device types for inclusion into VPPs, microgrids, and DERMS. Today in POWER magazine, AutoGrid CEO Ruben Llanes explores this topic and other obstacles facing the development and adoption of essential VPP technology.
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This EET&D profile of AutoGrid’s Sadia Raveendran highlights her work to accelerate the energy transition. Through her leadership, AutoGrid is using innovative technology to help energy companies harness distributed energy resources (DERs), create virtual power plants (VPPs), and decarbonize.
More positive projections out of Wood Mackenzie's recent report on the rise of VPPs in North America: "Policy remains the greatest obstacle for deploying virtual power plants. FERC's order 2222 should go a long way toward unlocking more virtual power plant capacity"
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Ready to unlock the full potential of virtual power plants? Aggregating and optimizing DER assets into VPPs can help balance the grid and reduce costs, but building and operating VPPs can be a complex undertaking.
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Blogs
Telematics, the convergence of telecommunications and information processing, has become essential in today’s digital economy, particularly with the explosive growth of electric vehicles (EVs). Telematics can provide immense volumes of data from EVs and support infrastructure to gain market insights, including the behaviors of those who drive EVs.
DERs are diverse, manufactured by multitudes of vendors, and offer up compelling synergies if they can be aggregated and optimized with AI and digital software platforms. Sound easy? It’s not, and that’s why AutoGrid has always approached the market for creative DER configs such as VPPs by pushing for open standards to address what can be an interoperability nightmare for utilities and prosumers.