Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Ryan Hledik, Principal at the Brattle Group, and Lauren Nevitt, Senior Director of Public Policy at Sunrun, on the shaky future of California’s Demand Side Grid Support distributed storage programme.
California’s statewide Demand Side Grid Support (DSGS) distributed storage programme reduced net load on the state’s grid on a 29 July test. Still, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office is set to cut its funding.
As reported last month by Energy-Storage.news, a 535MW fleet of aggregated household battery storage systems, including Tesla Powerwalls, demonstrated a “visible reduction in net load.”
On 29 July, during the evening peak hours from 7pm to 9pm, aggregators involved in virtual power plant (VPP) programmes with utilities discharged their battery assets into the CAISO grid.
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California set to cut funding for load-reducing distributed storage programme