- California could avoid $755 million in traditional power system costs and save electricity consumers $550 million annually by deploying about 7.7 GW of virtual power plant capacity by 2035, or five times its current VPP capacity, the Brattle Group said in a report released Thursday.
- The report analyzed the cumulative potential of five VPP technologies, including smart thermostats, behind-the-meter batteries, managed electric vehicle charging, automated demand response for commercial and industrial users and grid-interactive water heating, while excluding high-potential technologies, such as bidirectional EV charging, that Brattle says still face technical or commercial barriers to widespread adoption.
- Yet despite its high penetration of distributed energy resources and innovative pilot programs like Pacific Gas & Electric’s 30-MW load-shaping pilot with Sunrun, California’s VPP rollout “is just not yet happening at the scale you would expect,” Brattle Group Principal and report co-author Ryan Hledik told Utility Dive in an interview.
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