VPPs tap into everyday home technologies, including solar panels and batteries, by transmitting excess stored energy to the ...

Some lawmakers and advocates hope to harden Michigan’s electric grid and cut utility bills by adding new power plants, all without moving a single shovelful of dirt. How is that possible? The state ...

California’s biggest virtual power plant is facing over $100 million in funding cuts due to the state’s ongoing budget crisis, threatening the long-term viability of a program that can act as a ...

If what happened on July 29 in California is any indication of the future of the power grid, then there is reason for optimism. Let’s look at it from the perspective of Tom Weldon, who owns a house on ...

Picture an all-electric home with smart appliances that talk to each other via WiFi to figure out when to pull power from the grid. That’s the idea behind something called ‘virtual power plant’ ...

An energy experiment three weeks ago involving some 2,800 Bakersfield homeowners and roughly 100,000 others across California may point to a new way of keeping the lights on during times of peak ...

Sunrun just turned thousands of homes into the US’s largest virtual power plant to help keep the lights on in California this summer. The company’s virtual power plant, CalReady, has more than ...

NRG Energy, through its retail electricity provider Reliant, will accept new and existing Sunrun customers to its virtual ...