North America’s virtual power plant (VPP) market grew rapidly over the last year, reaching 37.5GW of behind-the-meter flexible capacity, according to a report from Wood Mackenzie.

Interoperability is crucial for deploying certain consumer technologies efficiently at scale.

BALTIMORE, Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CPower Energy ("CPower"), a leading Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform, today announced that it has been named a VPP market leader by Wood Mackenzie for the third year running.

The state’s utilities could use rooftop solar, batteries, and EVs to cut $13.7B in costs — by applying those to the right parts of stressed-out local grids.

Recently, we covered Bill McKibben’s new book entitled Here Comes The Sun, in which he enthuses about how solar energy is becoming the primary choice for both commercial and residential customers.

Bills boosting solar, batteries, EVs, and smart thermostats to rein in California’s utility costs moved ahead — but the most innovative approaches were cut.

Advocates say the taxpayer-funded Demand Side Grid Support program is critical to reducing energy costs and managing the California grid, but it faces an uncertain future.

State Grid Shanghai Municipal Electric Co. has reported a new VPP demand response which achieved 1.163 million kWH of load adjustment during a peak demand with record temperatures in China.

A 535MW fleet of aggregated household battery storage systems, including Tesla Powerwalls, effectively reduced net load on the California grid in a recent test event.  

Why should we pay for new utility power plants when VPPs can meet our grid’s needs at far less cost?

Tesla has launched its first-ever Virtual Power Plant program in the United Kingdom.

Kraken has reached a major milestone, managing over 2GW of power from consumer energy devices and creating what is believed to be the world’s largest residential Virtual Power Plant (VPP).

A Virtual Power Plant (VPP) isn't an actual physical power plant but rather an invisible command center emphasizing demand-side management. By employing highly digitized technologies and platforms, distributed energy resources (DERs)

German cleantech unicorn 1Komma5° has connected 500 MW of flexibility capacity to its energy management platform Heartbeat AI, and aims to reach 20 GW of power in the virtual power plant by 2030.

Virtual power plants are spreading across the US, enabling more electricity ratepayers to save money on their utility bills while motivating a shift away from gas appliances. Apparently President Trump hasn’t figured out a way to squash them, but give him a chance. He’ll figure it out. In the meantime, an interesting twist has bubbled up in the form of a new grid concept that launches itself into defensive mode when danger threatens, fending off cyberattacks, natural disasters, and other potential disruptions.

Solar Asset Mapper's (TZ-SAM) algorithms use satellite data to detect small, commercial solar facilities globally. Updated quarterly, the dataset contains over 23,000 km² of solar across 190 countries with a combined, total estimated capacity of 922 GW.

Storing renewable energy in electric vehicle batteries (EVs) instead of stationary energy storage facilities could help the European Union save over 106.5 billion dollars (100 billion euros) over ten years, according to a European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) study. If the intricacies are worked out, EVs could become the fourth-largest electricity supplier in the EU by 2040. 

With the addition of energy storage, solar-enabled ratepayers can power their way through an emergency individually with clean kilowatts, and they can also lend a hand collectively by enrolling in a virtual power plant.

Irish-based smart grid technology company GridBeyond says it has raised €52.25 million ($A86 million) in a new funding round that will help it expand its virtual power plant business, including in Australia, and help customers match load with green energy output.

A Utah storage company is on the cutting edge of utilizing distributed energy to strengthen the power grid, and today they’re taking another step forward.