• North American utilities are “increasingly looking to distributed resources” to meet data centers’ rapidly growing power demand amid ongoing challenges for large-scale generation deployment, energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie said last week. 
• Their interest spurred a surge in virtual power plant deployments last year, Wood Mackenzie Global Head of Grid Edge Ben Hertz-Shargel said in a Sept. 17 note. The numbers of active company deployments, unique offtakers for VPP capacity and monetized VPP programs all grew by at least one-third year over year, according to WoodMac’s data.
• But overall VPP capacity in North America grew only 13.7%, to 37.5 GW, indicating “a market that is broadening faster than it is deepening” due to persistent barriers to adoption, Hertz-Shargel said.

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