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🎙️Ep155: VPP & DER #applepodcast https://lnkd.in/dhTv48S #spotify https://lnkd.in/ditGthT #transcripts https://lnkd.in/er6wUv53 What are #VPPs? Virtual Power Plants. What are #DERs? Distributed Energy Resources As electricity demand grows and intermittent renewable energy on the grid increases, the VPP/DER platforms provide a critical role by shedding demand, sometimes for only a few minutes, to alleviate stress on the grids. VPPs can avoid using polluting peakers via pre-agreed and targeted demand reduction, or shifting consumption via batteries , and even participating in the frequency response market. And system operators are willing to pay a decent price to have access to these resources. That is the mission of Dana Guernsey. Dana is the CEO of Voltus, a leading DER technology platform and virtual power plant operator connecting distributed energy resources to electricity markets. As interconnection queues lengthen and capacity costs explode, are we at the on the dawn of a crazy development of VPPs? Dana explains that by while working with for Walmart or a fleet of electric school buses, she can reduce Voltus’s clients power bills by up to 20% while keeping their core services unchanged. Gerard Reid and Laurent Segalen are going to talk about technology, heating and cooling management, AI… and lasagna. Take a deep dive into the future.