Virtual Power Plants: Enphase, Sunverge And LG In The US, Project Symphony In Australia
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Energy Storage News.
The article is a good introduction to the concept of a virtual power plant. The Wikipedia entry starts with this definition.
A virtual power plant (VPP) is a cloud-based distributed power plant that aggregates the capacities of heterogeneous distributed energy resources (DER) for the purposes of enhancing power generation, as well as trading or selling power on the electricity market.
It can almost be thought of as an energy equivalent of the Internet.
As a Control Engineer, I believe that the creation of virtual power plants will be very important in the future.
Read the article and the Wikipedia entry and see if you agree.
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